After being allegedly beaten up by his teacher in a school in Khandwa district, a 15-year-old schoolboy committed suicide by hanging.
The deceased Aman Rathore was a Class IX student of a private school, MH Public School at Sulgaon village of Khandwa district. The police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and started further investigation.
Dhangaon police station in-charge Harish Rawat told media persons that the teenager hanged himself from a ceiling fan at his home on Friday evening when other members of the family were away in the fields.
In the suicide note written by the student, he blamed his teacher for his death. It has also been mentioned in the note that he was being harassed by the teacher only because he was Hindu. Boy's father Vijay Rathore, shared the suicide note with the media on Saturday.
According to the deceased's father, the teacher had called him on Friday afternoon to complain about Aman Rathore and threatened to expel the latter from school for indiscipline.
Vijay Rathore alleged that, after he left, the teacher thrashed his son with wooden rulers with so much force that two rulers broke.
District Superintendent of Police (SP) Ruchi Vardhan Mishra said the school authorities had admitted that Aman Rathore was beaten up. The teacher, who is not traceable, had objected to the teenager carrying mobile phone to the school, the SP said.