Sharing emotions on social media is nothing uncommon among youngsters, but who would have thought that a goodbye message on Facebook by a class XI student was actually him bidding adieu to his life.
Few hours after 17-year-old Samprit Bandyopadhyay posted the goodbye message on his Facebook wall on Wednesday night, his body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his bedroom at his Purba Putiyari home.
"We found that the boy had posted good bye on his Facebook wall at around 11.01 PM last night and possibly the mishap happened after that. We are waiting for the post mortem report," a senior officer of Kolkata Police said.
Initial probe revealed that the boy took this drastic step after his mother scolded him for scoring bad marks in the recent examinations at Swami Pranabananda Vidyapith School, where he was studying and also for low attendance, he said.
However, family members of the boy held a teacher of the school responsible for the boy taking such a step.
“The accountancy teacher used to hit and make my son stand holding his ears in class. He is a teenager and it is a co-education school. He would find it very humiliating. He was so terrorized by the teacher's punishment that he had stopped going to school on Wednesdays and Fridays because he had accountancy classes,” Times of India quoted his mother Aparna as saying.
"They said the teacher used to ill-treat Samprit for which he used to bunk schools on those days when there were classes of that teacher, resulting in low attendance. We are investigating the entire matter," the officer said adding nobody was arrested in connection with the matter.
