A 12-year-old student allegedly committed suicide at his home in northeast Delhi’s New Usmanpur area after he was scolded by his parents for poor performance in school during a parent-teachers meet, the police said on Sunday.
The boy Harsh Vardhan, a student of Class 6, hanged himself in the bathroom of his house in Brahmpuri area of New Usmanpur area on Saturday.
The parents of the deceased boy said that they had attended a parent-teachers meet along with him where complaint of his poor performance was made by the teachers.
They scolded him in the meeting for this in front of his friends and teachers which disturbed him, preliminary enquiry revealed.
Father of the boy, Mandeep told police that after coming back home, he refused eating anything and went to bathroom. He spent unusual time inside the bathroom and did not come out even after they called for him.
Suspecting something wrong, the bathroom door was broken open and Harsh was found hanging from a rod. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.
