Boy’s suicide: Social media post a planned move, says father

Gurgaon: The father of a 17-year-old boy who jumped to death from his flat in DLF-4 last month after being accused of sexual assault by a classmate in a social media post has submitted a list of names to the police of all those he believes had a role to play in driving his son to suicide.
The boy, a student of Class XII, jumped from the balcony of his 11th-floor flat, less than two hours after the post went up. He was trolled viciously, and also allegedly threatened over the phone. His parents were asleep in their room when he walked to the balcony and jumped.
The post, written on May 4, detailed an encounter two years ago, when the boy and the girl who wrote the post were both in Class X. The girl alleged he had insisted on meeting her a few days after they began talking in school. And when they met outside her housing society, he had allegedly proposed walking to the basement and, once there, asked her to perform a sexual act on him.
After the boy committed suicide, the trolls turned on the girl. She had later told TOI she stood by her post.
The boy’s father had subsequently filed a police complaint. A case was registered against unknown persons on May 14 under sections of abetment to suicide and a special investigation team was formed to probe the case. He has now alleged that the post was not a spontaneous one but a planned move by a group of four-five girls. He has also alleged that a man is involved too as his son had received threats over the phone from him.
“The post caused acute mental harassment and maligned my son’s image. I was also told by his friends that he also received threat calls from a man. I got the man’s phone number from my son’s call records, but it has been switched off since May 5,” the boy’s father said.
Other than the man who allegedly called his son, all the others in the list he gave police are minors. ACP (Sadar) Aman Yadav, who is heading the investigation, said, “I cannot share more on this at this point of time. We are waiting for details from the social media company.”