Girl suicide: School out with note, parents say forged

NOIDA: The girls’ school, which allegedly hid the suicide of a 14-year-old student and cremated her body without informing police, came out with a note in which the girl had purportedly written that no one was responsible for her death.
The girl’s parents alleged the note was forged, pointing out that the writing did not match their daughter’s. The family claimed this was the same note the authorities had spoken about when they had visited the school on July 3 but did not show it to them.
The Class X student’s parents had earlier found a few notes in her school bag in which she had scribbled how she was “wronged” and was upset with her life because she did not have any friends.
“There is no reason for my death — neither the school nor my parents.
I don’t have any reason to live and every human being lives for a reason. As it is, I had become a burden on everyone. Mother, I had become a
burden on you…. You will get what you want,” read the note that was circulated on Monday.
The girl had allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her classroom on July 3. The school authorities allegedly cremated the body in Bhangel without informing police, who got to know about the case only after the girl’s parents appealed to the UP government for justice on Sunday.
The student’s mother alleged that the note was an attempt by the school to mislead police. “When we reached the school on July 3, we were told that our daughter had left a suicide note in which she had blamed me for the extreme step. We pleaded with them to show us the note, but they refused. The writing on the note they released on Monday is not my daughter’s. A 14-year-old girl who wants to commit suicide will not write such a clean note,” the mother said.She demanded that the notes written by the girl earlier and the one released on Monday be examined by a handwriting expert.
Meanwhile, discrepancies have also emerged in the receipt issued by the Bhangel cremation ground authorities. The receipt says the girl died at home and the cause of death is mentioned as fever.
Additional DCP (Noida) Ranvijay Singh said, “In the note, the girl has mentioned that nobody is responsible for her death. We have asked her parents to give us whatever they consider evidence.”
Singh said the ACP (women’s safety) would visit the girl’s family in Haryana and an FIR would be lodged after a complaint is filed.
The chancellor of the school accused the girl’s family of stopping the authorities from informing police. “The girl had a fight with her younger sister (who studies in the same school) and was upset since then,” he added.
An NGO has also written to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, asking it to take cognisance of the case.