Surat: A girl studying in Class X committed suicide at her house in Pandesara, reportedly because she couldn’t attend a single online class of her school as she did not have any electronic gadget.
Akanksha Tiwari, a student of Decent Child High School, was found hanging from the ceiling fan at her house in Krishna Nagar early on Sunday. Postmortem confirmed hanging as the reason for death.
On Saturday, Akanksha was called by the school authorities and she had gone with her mother Vandana for the meeting.
Her father Shivshankar, a tempo driver, said, “During discussion, she informed the teachers that she could not attend online classes as she doesn’t have any medium to study. She also told them that there was just one smart phone in the house which I used.”
Shivshankar used to remain out of the house most of the day due to work. Talking to TOI, he denied that the school authorities had reprimanded her for not attending classes.
She was studying in English medium and had come to Surat two years ago to study from the family’s native in Ayodhya. She lived here with her five-year-old brother Om while her two other sisters Kashish (8) and Ankita (12) live in Ayodhya.
The family informed that Akanksha was worried as she could not study online during lockdown, said Pandesara police station sources.
“As parents, we never pressurised her for studies, but I had no clue that she was worried over not being able to study online. I earn reasonably well to support my family well, but I cannot afford to have more than one smart phone given the current situation,” said Shivshankar.
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