Prayers for the young boy Rahul Sridhar are on, while hope for justice seems far away as many questions surrounding the mysterious death of the Class IX student of Lucknow’s La Maritiniere College remain unanswered, reports VARUN BIDHURI
Rahul Sridhar, a Class IX student of La Mar-tiniere College in Luc-know, was found un-conscious in a pool of blood during school hours on 10 April 2015. The 14-year old later succumbed to his injuries. The death was presented as suicide by the school authorities and the police even as medical reports and medical analysis of post-mortem tell a different story. Soon after the incident, the injured boy, fighting for his breath, was rushed to the civil hospital of King George Medical University (KGMU) at 11:40 am. At 12:15 pm doctors declared him dead. On 10 April, his body was taken to the KGMU’s mortuary for post-mortem at 3:45 pm. The post-mortem (PM) started at 5:15 pm and ended by 5:55 pm. After the 45 minutes of postmortem the body was given to the family of the deceased. When his body was taken for the post-mortem he was wearing Khaki shirt and trousers, navy blue tie with stripes and underwear. However, his cadaver was later handed over to the family in a white shroud which is the very first question that remains unanswered till now.
A couple of hours later, the school administration had drafted a self-explanatory ‘press note’ with regard to the incident stating that “it is a simple case of suicide and nothing more than that.” Tehelka possesses the press release issued by the school after Rahul’s death. It mentions no reasons for the suicide. Apparently, the same day Rahul had been promoted from class 8 to 9th, and it was the first day of the academic session 2015-16.
Tehelka, in order to probe further, reached the parents of the deceased father V.Sridharan and mother Annamma Sridharan. Both are working at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), Lucknow. V Sridharan is a technical officer and Annamma Sridhar is assistant nursing superintendent.
This story is from the July 31 2016 edition of Tehelka.
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