Noida: A boarding school for girls in Noida allegedly hid the suicide of a 14-year-old student for nine days and cremated her body without informing police.
The Haryana-based family of the Class X student, who was enrolled in the school a year ago, alleged that their daughter was found hanging from the ceiling fan of a classroom by a group of girls on July 3. When the parents searched her bag, they found chits of paper with notes scribbled on them.
One of the notes mentioned how she had been “wronged” and how she “hated my life” as she had “no friend”.
‘School made us sign on paper that our daughter died of natural causes’
She also spoke of trauma because of “wrong treatment by everyone”. One of the pages, titled “bad day of my life”, had a few heart-shaped figures drawn on it along with tears dropping from an eye. She also wrote “I want to meet someone”.
The girl’s 13-year-old sister studies in the same school while their younger brother is in another branch. The family alleged the school authorities had locked the sister in a room so that she did not reveal the alleged suicide to anyone.
Soon after the lockdown was announced, the family had brought all three children home in Haryana. However, the students had to be sent back as the school authorities asked everyone to come and write their annual tests from the classroom. “On June 17, we prepared medical reports for all three and dropped them to their respective schools the next day,” the girl’s mother, a homemaker, said.
On July 3, the family alleged, the chancellor called them around 5.30am and asked them to reach the girls’ school as soon as possible. “We kept asking what was wrong, but they did not tell us anything. We told them we didn’t have enough money to come to Noida but they said they would help us with the expenses to hire a vehicle,” the mother said. Their father is a daily wager, whose income had been hit hard during the lockdown.
The mother said when they reached the school, their phone was taken away and some men led them to the classroom where their daughter’s body was hanging from the ceiling with two dupattas wrapped around her neck.
“She was still wearing her uniform. Her salwar was loose. When we asked them what had happened, we were told she had written a suicide note against me and if the note reached police, we could land in trouble. I asked them to show me the note and hand over the body, but they refused,” she said.
The girl’s parents were allegedly forced to sign on a piece of paper where it was written that she was unwell for long and had died of natural causes. “My husband was forcibly made to put his signature on the paper. My thumb impression was taken. We pleaded with them to let us take the body home, but they insisted she should be cremated in Noida. The body was cremated in Bhangel and nobody informed police,” the mother added.
The parents were sent home in a car arranged by the school. The mother claimed another vehicle trailed their car till Dhaula Kuan.
After returning home, the parents searched her bag and found the notes. A note mentioned Manish Tanwar and Manish Sharma multiple times. The family has approached Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar for the government’s intervention. They have also written to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, the Noida police chief and other officials.
The family is scared to visit Noida and lodge a complaint at their local police station. “They (the school) might cause us harm,” the mother said. The girl’s parents have sold the single plot they owned to arrange for money to fight the case.
DCP (Noida) Sankalp Sharma said police had not received any complaint so far. “An FIR will be lodged under IPC Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) once a complaint reaches us. Relevant sections can be added later,” he added.
The chancellor accused the parents of “cooking” up a story. “These are false allegations. We had shown a copy of the suicide note to them. She had written against her mother. The family did not want any police case or autopsy, which is why she was cremated. Police are collecting evidence. We have been told not to speak to anyone about the case,” he added.
The Haryana-based family of the Class X student, who was enrolled in the school a year ago, alleged that their daughter was found hanging from the ceiling fan of a classroom by a group of girls on July 3. When the parents searched her bag, they found chits of paper with notes scribbled on them.
One of the notes mentioned how she had been “wronged” and how she “hated my life” as she had “no friend”.
‘School made us sign on paper that our daughter died of natural causes’
She also spoke of trauma because of “wrong treatment by everyone”. One of the pages, titled “bad day of my life”, had a few heart-shaped figures drawn on it along with tears dropping from an eye. She also wrote “I want to meet someone”.
The girl’s 13-year-old sister studies in the same school while their younger brother is in another branch. The family alleged the school authorities had locked the sister in a room so that she did not reveal the alleged suicide to anyone.
Soon after the lockdown was announced, the family had brought all three children home in Haryana. However, the students had to be sent back as the school authorities asked everyone to come and write their annual tests from the classroom. “On June 17, we prepared medical reports for all three and dropped them to their respective schools the next day,” the girl’s mother, a homemaker, said.
On July 3, the family alleged, the chancellor called them around 5.30am and asked them to reach the girls’ school as soon as possible. “We kept asking what was wrong, but they did not tell us anything. We told them we didn’t have enough money to come to Noida but they said they would help us with the expenses to hire a vehicle,” the mother said. Their father is a daily wager, whose income had been hit hard during the lockdown.
The mother said when they reached the school, their phone was taken away and some men led them to the classroom where their daughter’s body was hanging from the ceiling with two dupattas wrapped around her neck.
“She was still wearing her uniform. Her salwar was loose. When we asked them what had happened, we were told she had written a suicide note against me and if the note reached police, we could land in trouble. I asked them to show me the note and hand over the body, but they refused,” she said.
The girl’s parents were allegedly forced to sign on a piece of paper where it was written that she was unwell for long and had died of natural causes. “My husband was forcibly made to put his signature on the paper. My thumb impression was taken. We pleaded with them to let us take the body home, but they insisted she should be cremated in Noida. The body was cremated in Bhangel and nobody informed police,” the mother added.
The parents were sent home in a car arranged by the school. The mother claimed another vehicle trailed their car till Dhaula Kuan.
After returning home, the parents searched her bag and found the notes. A note mentioned Manish Tanwar and Manish Sharma multiple times. The family has approached Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar for the government’s intervention. They have also written to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, the Noida police chief and other officials.
The family is scared to visit Noida and lodge a complaint at their local police station. “They (the school) might cause us harm,” the mother said. The girl’s parents have sold the single plot they owned to arrange for money to fight the case.
DCP (Noida) Sankalp Sharma said police had not received any complaint so far. “An FIR will be lodged under IPC Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) once a complaint reaches us. Relevant sections can be added later,” he added.
The chancellor accused the parents of “cooking” up a story. “These are false allegations. We had shown a copy of the suicide note to them. She had written against her mother. The family did not want any police case or autopsy, which is why she was cremated. Police are collecting evidence. We have been told not to speak to anyone about the case,” he added.
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