12-year-old Telangana minority school student commits suicide in hostel

Hyderabad: A 12-year-old student committed suicide by hanging in his hostel of Telangana Minority Welfare Residential School in Quthbullapur under Jeedimetla police station limits on Tuesday night.

According to the police, Mohd Fareeduddin, a Class VI student, joined the school on July 7. His body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his hostel room on the first floor.

“He cut his bed sheet, made a rope out of it and tied it to the fan and hanged himself,” said police inspector of Jeedi-metla C. Shanker Reddy.

Syed Aslam Nazir, the school principal, said that Fareeduddin was sharing the room with four others. They were sleeping when the boy took the extreme step. One of the inmates who woke up in the morning saw the body and alerted the hostel staff, who informed the police.

“The boy hails from a poor family from Venkat Ram Reddy Nagar in Jeedimetla. His father died 10 years ago and his mother, Akthar Begum, is a daily wage labour. There were no external injuries on the body,” added the police inspector.

The police officials have booked a case under Section 174 (suspicious death) of CrPC (code of criminal procedure) and shifted the body to Gandhi Hospital for post mortem.

Meanwhile, an NGO claimed that the percentage of minorities coming forward to educate their kids is low. Such incidents, however, would dissuade them. The NGO, Balala Hakkula Sangham, demanded arrest of the warden and criminal cases booked against the concerned for failure to provide care and protection to the inmates. It demanded Rs 25 lakh as compensation to the family from the Minorities Corporation.