India, Oct. 24 -- Tamil Nadu police has booked a school principal, a teacher and two students of a government-aided school for abetting the suicide by a Class 11 Dalit student in the Coimbatore district after his parents alleged that he was harassed over his caste and consumption of beef, police said on Friday.

All four accused have been detained, and the principal and the teacher suspended, police said.

The boy was found dead at his residence on October 21 in Peelamedu in Coimbatore. His parents have alleged that he was targeted by his class teacher and two classmates for belonging to the Scheduled Caste and for consuming beef, a police officer said.

"We have lodged a case against the class teacher, school's principal and two classmat...