Parents of class 4 student found dead in Raj say she was ‘bullied’

The parents of a nine-year-old student, who was found dead ata private school in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district last week, on Saturday alleged their daughter was being bullied by classmates with sexual connotations for the last year-and-a-half and she did not want to attend school on the day she died.

- HT Correspondent

The class 4 student died allegedly after falling from the fourth floor of her school building on the morning of November 1, police said, adding that they suspectit to bea case of suicide.

The Mansarovar SHO, Lakhan Singh Khatana, whois probing the case, said that an SIT has been formed to investigate the matter. “There are 300 CCTV cameras. But we got only three-day backup so far. In one of the footage, the vic-

tim wasalso seen visiting a teacher four times, few minutes before taking the drastic step. It seems that she went to complain about something. We are speaking to the teachers regarding the matter.”