Case against principal after schoolgirl commits suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow
A schoolgirl allegedly died of suicide in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow leading to a case being lodged against the girl’s school principal for alleged harassment and abetment to suicide, police said on Wednesday.
According to the police, the father of the Class 11 schoolgirl, has accused the school’s principal of harassing her. The victim’s father alleged that her teacher—who is also the school principal—falsely accused her daughter of copying in exams and harassed her leading her to committing suicide.
A senior official said that the 11th standard girl student was found hanging at her home in Lucknow, adding that no suicide note was found.
He said that a case of harassment and abetment to suicide has been filed under relevant sections of the law against the school’s principal based on a complaint by the victim’s father, adding that further investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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More details into the incident are awaited.
In a similar incident, on March 4, a 14-year-old schoolgirl allegedly ended her life by suicide after a private school in UP’s Bareilly district barred her from sitting in exams as she had failed to pay her school fees.
The minor girl’s father, Ashok Gangwa, had levelled accusations against the school management saying that they refused to let her sit in the exams despite repeated requests by the girl’s parents. The victim’s father has said that her daughter, who was in Class 9, was not allowed to sit in the exams as they had failed to pay her school fees of around Rs 20,000- Rs 25,0000, due to financial constraints.
Gangwar said his daughter wanted to study and become a doctor.
Bareilly Superintendent of Police (SP) (City) Rahul Bhati had said that the matter is being investigated and a case has been registered into the minor girl’s suicide.
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