Delhi school girl found dead in hostel, father wants CBI enquiry

UNSOLVED MYSTERY: Though the school authorities have ruled out any foul play the father of the victim believe that it was not a suicide case.

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New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl was found dead in mysterious circumstances in the hostel of a prominent Delhi school on Wednesday afternoon. She died after falling from the hostel’s fifth floor bathroom window.

Though, the school authorities believe that she committed suicide the parents of the victim believe otherwise.

The school authorities say she locked herself in the bathroom of her hostel and jumped out of the window after cutting the wire mesh. They rule out any foul play saying that she was not facing any problems in school or at the hostel.

The authorities say that the girl was a good student though in some recent tests she had preformed poorly.

“She used to study a lot. She only used to talk about studies and nothing else,’ says the principal of the school.

The school authorities have called it a clear case of suicide. They say that she was a small town girl with big dreams competing against no one but herself.

The girl hailed from Jharkhand and had joined the school two months back. The school authorities say she was possibly a victim of peer pressure.

“In Jharkhand she might have been the best student but here she was just one among many. That might have troubled her,” says the vice-principal of the school.

But the victim's father is inconsolable and thinks otherwise.

“I appeal to the Prime Minister that a CBI enquiry must be made,” says the father.

Experts feel that academic pressure alone cannot be the reason in such cases.

“Low esteem, parental pressure, family problems and a history of depression can be the reasons,” says a psychologist Arpita Anand.

In the meanwhile police officials are extremely tight lipped about the issue apart from the other belongings of the girl they have confiscated. These also include her personal diary which contains details about her day to day life. But the police say that any concrete statement can only be made once the post postmortem report is out.