Jaipur: In Jaipur, the parents of nine-year-old Amayra Kumar — the Class 4 student who died after falling from the fourth floor of Neerja Modi School in Mansarovar — have alleged she was subjected to repeated bullying and that her complaints to teachers went unheeded.
The family say that for nearly a year, Amayra had told her teacher, “ I don’t want to go to school… don’t send me,” via a WhatsApp voice message her mother had recorded, but still felt unsafe. According to them, several boys in her class teased her and made disrespectful comments, and despite repeated alerts to school staff — at parent-teacher meetings and via direct communication with teachers — no meaningful action was taken.
In the CCTV footage collected by investigators, Amayra is seen approaching a teacher twice just before the fatal incident—but the audio component of the footage is missing, despite guidelines requiring sound-enabled surveillance in schools. Her uncle questioned how a large private school, with over 5,000 students, could operate with open terrace floors lacking safety grills and without audio-capable CCTV.
The incident has triggered formal investigations: A five-member committee by the state education department and a team from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have been tasked with examining the school’s safety protocols, surveillance systems, oversight of student-teacher interactions and structural permissions of the building.
The education minister has indicated action will follow once the investigation reports are submitted. Meanwhile, the family’s grief is compounded by the belief that Amayra’s cries for help went unheard — a failure they hold both the school and its staff accountable for.
