‘We are Dalits and my son was brilliant, he dreamt of becoming a chief minister like Yogi’: Student, 12, ends life after being ‘harassed’ by teacher for ‘not taking private tuition classes’

Gorakhpur: A student in Class 5 in Saint Antony’s Convent School, Gorakhpur penned a heartbreaking suicide note telling of his tough time at school, and his struggle with one particular teacher.

Navneet Prakash, 12, one of the brightest students in his year, was upset when he returned home on September 15 after being allegedly harassed and denied entry into the school exams.

‘He quietly went upstairs and after some time, he came down and asked for food. His mother gave him food and after having a bit, he took water in a glass that he brought along with him,’ father Ravi Prakash, a Physics teacher in the Bapu Inter College, told Mail Today.

When he did not come down after some time, we rushed upstairs to find him lying on the bed with foam coming out of his mouth, he added.

Fearing the worst, the family rushed him to a nearby hospital from where he was rushed to the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead on Wednesday afternoon.

Heartbroken by the incident, family members and relatives created a ruckus at the school, and a heavy police force was deployed. The school administration have not been on campus or available for comment.

‘My son was a very bright student and he took tuition from the class teacher. He scored very high marks. Bhavna used to mentally harass him to join her tuition classes,’ claimed his father.

Later on Thursday afternoon, a postmortem was conducted and the report is awaited. An FIR was also registered at Shahpur police station under section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.

‘We have arrested the teacher, Bhavna, and the matter is being investigated,’ Vinay Kumar Singh, superintendent of police (city) told the media.

‘We are Dalits and my son was very brilliant. He dreamt of becoming the chief minister and his role model was chief minister Yogi Adityanath. He also used to visit the Gorakhnath Dham regularly with us and wanted to become the CM,’ a visibly moved Sunita Devi, the mother of Navneet, said.

Interestingly, Yogi was present in Gorakhpur on Thursday to offer prayers on the first day of Navratra to establish the kalash and would be leaving for Varanasi where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend a programme.

After Naveet’s death, the parent searched his bag and found the suicide note. They also found a glass rapped in a polythene and a foul smell was coming out from it.

Navneet consumed the water in the same glass when he took food for the last time.

‘Probably, he has consumed some poison as foam was coming out from his mouth when the family members rushed him to the hospital,’ Singh informed.

Source: Daily Mail