A Class 12 student hanged herself to death in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, prompting her parents to allege sexual harassment by a school teacher as the reason behind the suicide.

The 17-year-old girl is said to have hanged herself at her home in Coimbatore's RS Puram locality when her parents were out.

 

She had recently started attending school after educational institutions reopened in the state. However, she had suddenly wanted to discontinue from her current school and had got a TC as well.

 

An alleged suicide note was found in the girl's room, in which three people were named. Her parents alleged that the she had complained of being sexually harassed by a teacher at her private school.

The minor girl’s father Makuteshwaran said, "Though my daughter had complained against a faculty member named Mithun Chakravarthy, no action was taken against him. Mithun had continuously tortured my daughter but the principal didn't even take the complaint seriously.”

 

The accused teacher, Mithun Chakravarthy, has been detained by the police and booked under section 306 of the Indian Penal Code and section 9L r/w section 20 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

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