Bhubaneswar: A 15-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide after stealing Rs 60 from his father’s pocket. The incident took place at Galupada under Jagatsinghpur police limit on Tuesday. Police found a letter that the boy had addressed to his father. This was not the first time that the boy had stolen money from his father’s pocket.
The deceased Pradyumna was the only son of school teachers Prakash Chandra Rout and Rashmirekha Mohapatra. He was a student of the Government High School in Katra under the Tirtol police limit, where Rout, a native of Mulugaon under the Balikuda police limit, works as a teacher. His mother teaches at Government Primary School, Sasanpada. The family was staying in rented accommodation at Galupada.
On Monday, Rout rebuked Praduymna for allegedly stealing Rs 60 from his pocket. On Tuesday, Praduymna said he didn’t want to go to school on the pretext of completing homework. When his mother returned from school, she found her son hanging from the ceiling fan with the help of a towel. She raised an alarm. Locals rushed him to the District Headquarters Hospital, Jagatsinghpur but the doctor declared him brought dead.
Police have seized the body and sent it for post-mortem. Pradyumna was a student of the Central school but his father had brought him to the school where he was teaching so that he can guide him well for the matriculation examination, according to reports.
IIC of Jagatsinghpur police station Gokularanjan Das said police have registered an unnatural death case. The child had written that no one is responsible for his death and the stolen money has been kept in the cupboard.
