The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the district magistrate and deputy commissioner of police of Central Delhi after receiving a complaint alleging that the Class 10 student died by suicide because of “continuous mental harassment and discriminatory treatment by teachers of a reputed school in Lutyens’ Delhi”.

An NHRC Bench led by Member Priyank Kanoongo has asked both authorities “to get the allegations made in the complaint inquired into and to submit an Action Taken Report within 10 days”.

The complaint states that “several teachers, including the Principal, routinely mocked, humiliated, and threatened the student”, and that former students and parents had shared “similar experiences of mental harassment, segregation, negative comparisons, and long-lastin

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