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Saturday, Mar 04, 2006

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Suicide case: Schoolboy's attendance was short

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The police are inquiring into the circumstances that forced a 17-year-old school boy, who was reportedly denied admit card for his Board examinations by his school due to poor attendance, to allegedly commit suicide in his house at Dwarka in South-West Delhi this past Wednesday.

According to the police, the school administration was being questioned about how low was the attendance of Chandrabhan, son of Toofan Singh, a scrap dealer living at Patel Garden in Dwarka, which forced his school at Tilak Nagar in West Delhi to withhold his roll number.

On Wednesday, Chandrabhan had allegedly hanged himself to death after he missed out on his first paper on March 1. The police said he went into deep depression after he was denied the admit card.

Chandrabhan and his father had also reportedly done the rounds of the Central Board of Secondary Education offices at Preet Vihar in East Delhi trying to explain their case. But they could apparently not get any relief.

Investigations had revealed that Chandrabhan used to help his father in his work after school. Since his family was not financially well off, Chandrabhan, the only son, even used to fund his own studies buying the books and stationery with the money he earned. However, the pressures of earning a livelihood while studying forced him to remain away from the school for many days. This resulted in Chandrabhan missing out on his school frequently.

Initial investigations indicated that while the minimum percentage required in Class XII was around 65 per cent, Chandrabhan had only about 30 per cent attendance.

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