Sixteen-year-old Shourya Patil’s father, Pradeep Patil, claimed that his son had endured a year of mistreatment, mockery, and mental pressure at school.

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The class 10 student of a leading private school in Delhi, who died by suicide earlier this week, was allegedly mocked and “ill-treated” by his teachers for a year, and was threatened with expulsion after his parents objected to their behaviour.