Class X Student Dies After Teachers ‘Mishandle’ School Spat 

A school fight, which was allegedly mishandled by teachers, has led to the suicide of a 15-year-old girl at a school in Kollam, Kerala.

Class X student Gauri succumbed to her injuries on Monday after she jumped off the third storey of her school - Trinity Lyceum near Thankasseri, on Friday. The student, who hails from Ramankulangara, breathed her last at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram where she was admitted in a critical condition with injuries to her head and spine.

Two female teachers, identified as Crescent and Sindhu, are absconding after the police registered a case against them in connection with the incident. The Kollam West police had earlier filed a case of abetment of suicide against the two teachers, who had mentally harassed the girl, according to the girl’s father.

Reports say Crescent had forced Gauri's sister, a Class VIII student of the school, to sit with boys to punish her for talking in class on Friday. Gauri had a spat with some of her sister’s classmates during the interval as they were making fun of her. Gauri was then called to the staff room where Sindhu and Crescent scolded her harshly in front of other teachers, following which the girl jumped off from the school building.

The Trinity Lyceum Higher Secondary School was founded in 1966 by the then Bishop of Quilon, Dr Jerome M Fernandez. The school claims to fuse Christian and the classic as evinced in ‘Trinity’ that signifies the oneness of the father, the son and the Holy Spirit, and Lyceum.