Fire service college student kills self, blames teacher

NEW DELHI : A 19-year-old student of National Fire Service College, Nagpur, allegedly committed suicide at the railway tracks near the New Delhi Railway station on Sunday, after one of his teachers demanded ₹35,000 to give him pass marks in his exams.

Police said the student had sent a suicide note to his family on Saturday on WhatsApp, alleging the teacher demanded money after he had failed in two subjects of his first semester exams.

The college has ordered an inquiry into the incident. Delhi Police is probing the matter.

Deputy commissioner of police (railways) Dinesh Kumar Gupta said some documents and a railway ticket from Nagpur to Delhi was found on him.

Gupta said police identified the student as Nalli Hemant Kumar from Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

“Initial enquiry revealed Hemant was a first-year student. In a suicide note he said one of his teachers (name withheld), had asked him to pay ₹35,000 to give him pass marks in seven semesters. Disturbed, he was going to commit suicide,” the DCP said.

“He sent the note to his father on WhatsApp. He switched off his phone. We lodged a missing complaint at Mankapur police station in Nagpur. In his note, Hemant accused a professor of asking Rs 5,000 per semester. His father is a farmer, how he could have paid this amount?” Babu said.

“The boy was missing from hostel from Friday. We lodged a missing complaint with the Mankapur police station. On Sunday, we were informed Nalli had committed suicide,” Saini said.