Boy ends life after being pulled up for prank message

DN Bureau

A class nine student of a school here allegedly committed suicide Monday after being chided for a prank holiday SMS he had sent recently.

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Madurai: A class nine student of a school here allegedly committed suicide Monday after being chided for a prank holiday SMS he had sent recently, police said.

The boy hanged himself at his house, they added.

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He had sent the message to students saying that it was a holiday for the city corporation-run school, believing which around 50 of classmates did not turn up, police said.

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When the school authorities investigated the issue, it came to light that the boy had sent the message.

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The headmaster called the boy's father and mother, a school teacher herself, and rebuked them for the boy's behaviour.

His classmates also chided him following which the dejected boy ended his life, police said. (PTI)

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