Teen ends life after row over school fees

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humiliated student committed suicide after a teacher barged into her house demanding unpaid school fees, police said yesterday.

The father of the 16-yearold Class 9 student at the DSP Higher Secondary School in Ghaziabad could not pay her school fees. He got her transferred to another school whereafter the teacher from the other school barged into the student’s house and demanded Rs11,000 in outstanding fees from the girl’s father before calling the police, who took the latter away for questioning. (IANS)