A 15 year-old girl student of St Xavier's High School, Chaibasa committed suicide at her house in Patahatu under Muffasil police station in West Singhbhum district on Saturday morning. The deceased, Jyoti Bari, committed suicide allegedly after being tortured by one of the fathers (teachers) of the school. An FIR was lodged by the deceased's mother Lilamati Bari on Sunday and the police have started probing into the circumstances that forced the girl to her end life.
In the FIR, Lilamati has mentioned that her daughter, who was a student of class 10, had gone to school on Friday morning despite being sick. "The father tortured her and she ended her life. The class teacher had taken her to the sick-room of the school. Later, when she returned home she started crying and on being asked she said that father had tortured her and had snatched her school bag while she was in the sick-room," Lilabati has said in the FIR.
According to the FIR, as the deceased did not say anything clearly except that a father tortured her, her elder sister went over to St Xavier High School taking her along in the evening and contacted one of the fathers to know what had happened. The father said he will let her know only on Monday.