An eighteen-year-old girl died by hanging herself in Wireless Colony of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow on 14 March allegedly due to harassment in school, police said here on Thursday.
According to the police, Pradeep Kumar, the father of the deceased girl filed a complaint on 14 March at Mahanagar Police Station in Lucknow alleging that his daughter Isha Yadav, studying in class 11 of RLB School, Sarvodaya Nagar, located in Gazipur Police Station area was physically and mentally harassed by the class teacher and Principal at school.
According to the complaint, the class teacher and principal falsely framed the girl for cheating in exams and harassed her, physically and mentally, following which the girl hanged herself to death on returning home.