A 13-year-old student died by suicide after jumping off the roof of her three-storey school building in Maharashtra on Friday (November 21). Aarohi Deepak Bidlan, a resident of Mastagad in Jalna district, was studying in Class 8 at the CTMK Gujarati School. Her father, who works as a sanitation worker at a private hospital, has alleged that she may have been "tortured" by her teachers.

Aarohi's father said he received a call informing him that she had jumped from the school roof. "I went to the school and was told she was taken to a hospital. There, the doctors said that there are very less chances of her surviving. She was then referred to the civil hospital, where she was declared dead," Deepak Ashok Bidlan said. "She was fine when she left home, the teachers must have tortured her," he

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