Chhattisgarh: 14-Year-Old Dies By Suicide (image: Pixabay)

Police on Monday reported that a 14-year-old student of a private school committed suicide in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district.

It was only days before a student belong to Class 6 of the same school committed suicide, stating harassment by a teacher.

Station house officer Ashwini Singh said that the deceased was found hanging in an under-construction house in a locality under the Gandhinagar police station area on Sunday night.

The cause of death is not yet known, and no suicide note has been recovered so far. An accidental death report was filed, the official said.

On February 6, a Class 6 student of the same school discovered hanging from the ceiling in a room at her house in the Darripara area under the Manipur police station limits.

In the suicide note, the girl had accused a teacher of harassment. Following an investigation, the police arrested the accused teacher under section 305 (abetment of suicide of child) of the Indian Penal Code.

(With inputs from PTI)

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