Weeks after being admitted to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital for treatment of burns sustained during a self-immolation bid, a 14-year-old boy from Faridabad succumbed to his injuries on Monday, hospital authorities said.
Kaustubh Pandit, a student of a private school in Faridabad, had set himself on fire on November 26.
“The boy had suffered 40 per cent burns. Despite treatment, his kidney and lungs stopped functioning. He died 5.25 am on Monday,” Rajpal, the hospital’s medical superintendent, told reporters.
Police said though the actual reason was yet to be ascertained, the initial investigation showed that the boy was allegedly harassed by his teacher in front of his classmates,
leading him to take such an extreme step. “The boy had also confessed to have procured the fuel from a petrol pump in a bottle, hid it in his school bag and then ignited himself in the second floor washroom,” a police official said.
The body has been sent for post-mortem.