GUWAHATI: In yet another incident of its kind, a student of South Point School in Guwahati was found dead on Monday, in what is believed to be a suspected case of suicide.
The deceased student’s body was reportedly found early on Monday morning.
According to initial reports, the incident is said to have taken place on the fourth floor of the hostel inside the campus of South Point School located in Barsapara locality of Guwahati.
The deceased, who was not named, was a resident of Arunachal Pradesh and was studying in Class 12 in South Point School. He was a boarder in the hostel. Till now, the reason behind the tragic incident is not clear.
Meanwhile, South Point School authorities suspended all classes scheduled for the day, in light of the tragedy which took place in the campus.
The police was informed about the incident and arrived at the scene. They recovered the body and have launched an investigation into the case and further details are expected to emerge soon.
For the moment, the identity of the deceased is not being disclosed by the authorities.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, the additional superintendent of police (ASP) of Assam’s Jorhat outright rejected the notion of honey trapping or blackmailing and said that preliminary investigations in the case related to an elderly man’s suicide does not hint towards that. However, the police official said that the accused may have sought to make money by selling the videos to pornographic websites.
The Jorhat ASP was addressing the media regarding the recent case where an elderly man aged around 72 years committed suicide after an intimate video featuring him in a sexual act with a much younger woman went viral on the internet.
He said, “You may be familiar with the case that in the last few days, an obscene video has been shared widely on social media. In that regard, a young woman had registered a case at the Jorhat Sadar Police Station on May 1 numbered 215/23 under sections 328, 376 and 354 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) read with section 67, 67 (A) of the Information Technology (IT) Act. An investigation into the case was launched and we inspected the videos that were shared online. Soon we also detained all the people associated with the case.”
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