School boy commits suicide

Statesman News Service

MALDA, Dec. 26: Babul Akhtar, a class IX student, committed suicide consuming pesticide at his home in Malda. The police suspect the boy was suffering from peer pressure.The boy consumed pesticide at his home at Balutola under Kaliachak police station yesterday and disclosed the matter when he fell ill in the afternoon. Guardians brought him to Malda district hospital for treatment but it was too late by then. The poison had killed him. “Babul was reluctant to continue his studies from the hostel of a local residential school at Laxmipur village. His father had insisted that the boy would have to return to the hostel for his education,” Babul's uncle told the police. Babul had come home from the residential school before Id and wanted to stay back but his father had instructed him to go back to the hostel, the family members, said. Locals said that Babul threatened his guardians with suicide if they forced him to go back to the hostel.