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Tuesday 15 April 2014

Deaf and mute student found dead in school : Chandrapur , Nagpur

A Class VIII student of a local residential school for deaf and mute in Babupeth was found hanging from the roof of an open shed on the school premises under mysterious circumstances late on Sunday night.

Parents of the victim Tirupati Dudhbale (17) have, however, charged an unidentified night shift staffer in the school with choking their son to death and then setting up a scene of suicide.

The incident came to light late when school staffers took an unconscious Tirupati to the civil hospital claiming that he hanged himself. Doctors declared Tirupati brought dead and reported the matter to the police. Tension prevailed on the school premises on Monday morning when Tirupati's parents came charging the school staffer with thrashing and murdering their son.

According to the police, students of the school were retired to their hostel rooms after dinner on Monday. Tirupati slipped out of bed and hanged himself using towels in the open shed. Staffers of the school later found him hanging and rushed him to hospital.

"It was school staffers who brought down the boy and rushed him to hospital assuming him to be alive. As the body was removed from the crime scene, cops were unable to conduct the inquest. Hence it is difficult to predict whether it is suicide or a murder without the post mortem report," said SDPO Raju Bhujbal.

Tirupati's parents, who hail from village Itoli in Ballarpur tehsil, have claimed that their son had told them through sign language that a staffer in the school often beat him up severely for minor mistakes. The same staffer thrashed him seriously after the dinner on Sunday and then choked him to death, they alleged. Some of the students from the school have reportedly corroborated these allegations.

Bhujbal ratified that Tirupati's parents have alleged sabotage. "It is difficult to communicate with deaf and mute students. Still we are speaking to them with the help of translators. However, further course of action will depend on the post mortem report," he said.

Preliminary post mortem report is expected to come later in the night, he said. The city police have registered a case and further investigations are underway.



Source : TOI , 15th April 2014

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