Community members in Pasighat have gathered at the hospital and are demanding a thorough probe into the incident.

A 13-year-old Class 7 student of Sainik School Niglok near Ruksin in East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh was found dead on Friday morning under suspicious circumstances. The boy’s parents have accused seniors at the institute of severe ragging.

Police have launched a probe and registered a case under Section 194 of the BNSS.

According to the police, the Vice Principal alerted Ruksin Police Station at 8 AM, reporting that the boy had allegedly died by suicide. The student was marked absent during morning PT and not found in the hostel. Construction workers later spotted the body on the roof of an unfinished shed beside an overhead water tank—far from the hostel area and

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