New Delhi, April 11, 2023 (PPI-OT):A Muslim student has committed suicide after being mentally tortured in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district and his family members have filed a complaint with the Superintendent of Police (SP) alleging that they were being harassed. Razzaq, a 17-year-old student at Poonam Chand Bajariya School in Churu district, took his own life leaving behind a suicide note containing the names of his tormentors. Rustam Khan, brother of Razzaq, filed a complaint with the SP lamenting that no action had been taken in the case after the registration of an FIR.

“All the accused were named in the complaint and the suicide note. But no action has so far been taken in this regard due to political pressure. Besides, the family of the victim is being harassed in different ways,” reads the complaint. Salim Khan, another brother of Razzaq, told media that the victim was treated inhumanely by his teachers. “He used to be unnecessarily scolded in front of all his classmates. The teachers would make him stand out of the classroom. Slurs were hurled at him targeting his religious identity.”

He said that the teachers used to tell Razzaq: “What will you do after your studies? You are a Muslim. You will become a terrorist,” said Salim. In the complaint, school teachers Dhanram Prajapat, Shashi Sarma and Ranjit Bhinchar were named. They were booked under Section 306 of the IPC. According to this section, if any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term that may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to a monetary fine.

The FIR said that a week before his death, Razzaq had complained to the family that he was being harassed at the school due to his religious identity. He was also beaten up several times and was thrown out of the school. When his brother Rustam went to school to talk about the issue, he was also misbehaved with by the accused teachers and others. Despite his mistreatment, Rustam asked Razzaq to go to school. When he went to school again he found that his name was cut off from the class.

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