A Class 10 student in Jharkhand has died by suicide after her teacher allegedly slapped her for wearing a 'bindi' at school. Police said a suicide note was recovered in which the student accused her teacher of torture. "We received information that a student has died by suicide. A suicide note has been recovered in which she alleged that she was tortured by a teacher in her school. FIR has been registered and the accused arrested. Further probe underway," DSP Nisha Murmu of Baghmara, Dhanbad, said.
The suicide note was addressed to the Tetulmari police station officer in charge, police said, adding that the note contained that she (student) can't tolerate insult in school in public and preferred death and action should be taken against the teacher and principal, PTI reported.
The report quoted the police saying that the girl hanged herself to death from the ceiling fan in her house in Hanumangarhi Colony, about 25 km from the district headquarters.
The police seized the suicide note and lodged an FIR against the teacher and the principal.
With no police action after 24 hours, the family members of the girl and their relatives sat on the road with her demanding the arrest of the teacher and principal, after which the deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Baghmara region, Nisha Murmu, reached the spot and assured the agitating parents and relatives of action against the guilty, PTI reported.
In the afternoon Tetulmari police station in-charge Ashish Kumar Yadav arrested both the accused from school.
The family members of the girl alleged that when her mother went to the school to lodge a complaint against the teacher for slapping and humiliating her daughter for putting 'bindi' on her forehead, the principal sent her back.