Principal, teacher booked over student's suicide on father's complaint — 'abused son, insulted wife'

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New Delhi: The school principal and an English teacher at the Army Public School in Shankar Vihar have been booked for abetment of suicide of a Class 10 student..

The move came after the boys father alleged that the duo threatened to withhold his sons admit card for the February board exam, abused the 16-year-old and insulted his mother...

An FIR was registered on the fathers complaint under IPC section 306 (abetment of suicide) at the Vasant Vihar police station Thursday..

It said Radhika informed his wife that her son would not get the admit card for the Class 10 board exam, scheduled from 21 February, and asked her to visit the school...

I want to lodge an FIR against the school principal for having driven my son to commit suicide by illegally denying him the issuance of the admit card because of which he came under mental tension since he would have lost one year of his studies as also for insulting my wife and son for something very imaginary and/or mundane because of which my son took this extreme step, the father said in his complaint...