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Bangalore: A young schoolboy killed himself in Bangalore on Wednesday allegedly because his school authorities were harassing him.
Fifteen-year-old Darshan’s family alleges that the authorities used to point out his shortcomings and humiliate him. Darshan, 15, was a Class IX student in Oxford Public School in New Thippasandra, reports in Bangalore newspapers said.
A report published in The Hindu said Darshan wrote a note before killing himself in which he alleged that he felt humiliated after the school summoned his parents and complained that he had misbehaved with a girl.
The school has rejected the allegations. A study by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) has found that young people in Bangalore constitute the highest number of suicide victims each year.
An average of 1,900 people commit suicide in the city annually. Of this number, nearly three per cent are by children younger than 15. The NIMHANS study says the largest number of suicides in the city are in the 15-29 age group.
Suicides increase after Class X and Class XII exam results are declared. As many as 93 per cent of suicide victims belong to nuclear families. For every suicide committed, there are at least 9 unsuccessful attempts.
A suicide is reported in the country every five minutes and one in three suicides is by a young person aged 15 to 29.
Dr Sameer Pareekh, head of Mental and Health Department Max Hospital says worldwide the young are more likely to commit suicide.
“Worldwide there has suicides among the young is increasing. There are various reasons for it. One key reason is that lot of students are going through long standing stress or long standing problems like depression. There is academic pressure personal problems and the incapability to dealt with which led them to commit suicide,” he says.
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