By IANS,
Bhilwara : A Class 7 student, beaten up by four classmates over a dispute involving Rs.100, Thursday committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara town, police said. Four students have been detained.
“Murali Panday, 14, was a student at Pandit Chandrasekhar Shastri Sanskrit Vidhyalaya in Bhilwara. His body was found hanging from the ceiling of his room in the hostel,” said a police official.
He was depressed over the harassment by four of his classmates. He left a suicide note accusing the four students of harassment at the school in Bhilwara, over 240 km from state capital Jaipur, police said.
The four students have been detained for abetment to suicide, police said
His classmates beat him up over payment of Rs.100 which had been collected among them for a dinner party, said a police official.
Police said the five students had pooled in money for a dinner party Monday. “The collected money was kept with Murali. But he did not return the money,” the official said.
Police said the four students started harassing him and tore off his clothes in the presence of many other students in the school. They also thrashed and abused him.