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BENGALURU: Upset at not being elected class leader , a 14-year-old boy hanged himself at his home in Ideal Home Township, Rajarajeshwarinagar, southwest Bengaluru, on Tuesday night.

R Dhruvraj , a class 9 student of Baldwin Co-Education Extension High School, RR Nagar, was upset as he did not get elected as class leader, his homemaker-mother R Divya told police. The school denied the election as the trigger, and said there could be personal reasons.

“The election was a month ago. There were four contenders in the fray, and my son was confident of a victory. But a classmate was chosen. My son was not happy as he thought he had all the qualities of a leader and there was no reason to reject him,” police quoted Divya as saying.

The school management announced class leaders of four sections each of Class 8, 9 and 10 on Tuesday. “On June 10, the class leaders were given tasks. My son, after attending the programme, became more depressed. He did not go out to play in the evening and I thought he’d recover in a day or two,” she said.

Boy was in UKG when he saw his father hanging

Dhruvraj locked himself in his room around 10.30pm. “He did not have dinner. After I finished dinner, I knocked on his door. I became anxious when there was no response for a while. A neighbour came, and we forcibly opened the door to find my son hanging from the ceiling,” she said.

Dhruvraj was rushed to hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.

A family member said Dhruvraj’s father, businessman Rajesh Kumar, had committed suicide when the boy was a UKG student. “Dhruvraj had seen his father’s body hanging. We’re not sure why Rajesh took the extreme step,” the relative added.

