School headmistress arrested for abetting suicide by student
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The headmistress of a private school whose class 10 student had allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the top floor of his apartment block here has been arrested, police said.The headmistress was arrested on Saturday for allegedly abetting the suicide by the student who had taken the extreme step, leaving behind a suicide note in which he had said, This school has killed me.In his note, the student had accused his school headmistress of harassing him and other children of bullying him, police had said on Friday after the boy allegedly committed suicide. The 15-year-old boy, a student of the school, allegedly jumped from the top floor of his residential building on Thursday evening leaving behind a suicide note in which he blamed the school for his action.“She (mother of deceased) gave us a written document mentioning the names of students who used to trouble her son. We investigated the matter and have found nothing. The majority of students whose names were given by the mother are not there in School. We questioned two-three students, who were part of the school, and found nothing,” said Mamata Gupta, Senior Academic Coordinator, DPS Greater Faridabad. The deceased’s mother wrote a written complaint to the police where she has mentioned that due to mental stress at school, he went into depression and was undergoing treatment.The police spokesperson further stated that when the boy jumped from the building his mother was out of the house and she got a call from her neighbours, informing her about the incident and that he was being taken to the hospital. The mother came to know after reaching the hospital that her son has died.Station House Officer (SHO), Arjun said, “FIR has been registered and action is being taken as per mother’s complaint against school’s academic head.”The police are thoroughly investigating all the points related to the incident following the legal process, the accused will be arrested as per the rules, added Arjun.