India, March 11 -- A Class VII student allegedly died by suicide after facing severe harassment at his school in the Narsinghpur area of Cuttack district on Wednesday.

According to the complaint filed by the boy's mother, the student and his classmates had allegedly broken a CCTV camera installed in their classroom and thrown it into a nearby pond on Sunday. Following the incident, the school authorities called the student and his mother to the school where the boy was reprimanded.

The family has alleged that the student could not bear the humiliation and harassment at the school. After returning home, he was found dead at his place.

However, Tilottama Behera, headmistress of the school, claimed that the child's mother used to scold he...