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Dalit student commits suicide, teachers booked
Published on : Sunday 31 Jan 2010 22:05 - by IANS
Lucknow, Jan 31 : Repeated failures at the examinations led a final
year medical student at the King George's Medical University here in
Uttar Pradesh to allegedly end his life by consuming poison here.
The body of Sushil Kumar Chaudhary, 26, was found in his rented home
in the Kanpur Road Lucknow Development Authority colony Sunday.
In the suicide note, the youth blamed some of his teachers for driving
him to take the extreme step. He had failed four times in his
examinations.
His father Dhruv Nath Singh registered a case against four faculty
members besides the university registrar V.P. Singh.
Alleging gross discrimination by these teachers, the father claimed
that Sushil was often reminded of his Scheduled Caste background and
told that he should give up his dream of becoming a doctor.
"Tum dhobi ke bete ho, doctor banne ke khwab chor do (you are a
washerman's son, forget about becoming a doctor)", was allegedly a
repeated refrain of the teachers to Sushil, his father alleged in the
complaint.
Commotion prevailed in the medical college after the father's arrival
from his home in Gorakhpur.
Fellow students demonstrated on the campus seeking action against the
"guilty" teachers, even as bulk of the faculty members termed the
charges against the teachers as "fabricated"
"The accusations made against the teachers were absolutely baseless...
after all there are so many Dalit students enrolled in the college
every year and it is not the mentality of any teacher to run down
anyone on account of his or her caste," a senior professor said.
According to him, Sushil was a poor student and his father was aware
of his poor academic record, so it was grossly unfair on his part to
blame the teachers.
Another teacher noted that internal teachers only have the practical
examination in their hands and the theory examinations are seen by
external examiners and the copies are bar-coded, so there is no way
that any internal faculty member can influence the marks awarded to a
student.
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