INDORE: A 12-year-old child in Mandsaur, who played a British police officer in a school drama on Bhagat Singh , accidentally hanged himself at home while trying to replicate the execution of the revolutionary.According to local police, the victim, Priyansh Malviya of Bholiya village, was found hanging in a hut on his father's farm on Sunday evening. An upturned cot lay on the floor, along with a smartphone with a video clip of the play he had acted in the previous evening. News of the accident trickled out on Thursday."Preliminary investigation revealed that the child had participated in a play in his school's annual event. The next day, he was watching a video clip of the drama and was trying to recreate the scene. He couldn't maintain balance, and the cot he was standing on collapsed, leaving him hanging from the rope. It was not suicide but a tragic accident," Mandsaur SP Hitesh Choudhary said. The postmortem report confirmed suffocation as cause of death. His body was handed over to the family for the last rites.Priyansh's father Vinod Malviya is a government teacher. "On his parents' wish, we had given the role of a British police officer to Priyansh in the short, three-minute-long play. We came to know about the tragic incident today,'' Gyan Sagar School principal Arun Jain said.