Suicide by student: Family wants action against teacher

4 months after suicide, ‘failed’ student found to have topped class Distressed after being declared failed in physics, a 17-year-old electronics engineering student of Gogjibagh Government Polytechnic College, Srinagar, had committed suicide, but four months after his death, a re-evaluation found that he not only passed the subject but topped his class. The family members of the deceased, Adnan Hilal Gilkar, held a massive demonstration in Srinagar today against the teacher who failed him. “He committed suicide as he could not see himself failing after working hard in his favourite…

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