An 18-year-old student of Class XI committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan inside his house at West Delhi’s Vikaspuri area on Tuesday evening. The deceased identified as Vidur Kumar, in his suicide note, has alleged that his schoolteachers were demanding money to grant him passing marks in the examination. The body of Vidur Kumar was spotted by his mother in their house located at Janta Flats in Vikaspuri, at around 5 pm on Tuesday. He had made a string of his mother’s sari to hang him from the ceiling fan.
A suicide note, which is written in Hindi and English, was recovered from his room. In the note he mentioned that he was upset as his teachers were demanding money to pass him in the examination. “I love u maa…my teachers used to demand money from me and as I could not pay they did not pass me in the examination,” the note reads, said the source. A family member said Vidur had got compartment in one of the subjects in the recently-declared class XI result. He is survived by his father, who is a school cab driver, mother and a younger sister. Police said that the body has been preserved for the post-mortem examination at Deen Dayal Upadhaya Hospital in West Delhi.