16-Year-Old Dalit Student Dies by Suicide, SC/ST Act Invoked Against Tamil Nadu Headmistress

Scolded by teacher for standing up for her mother, Tamil Nadu teen dies by suicide

The 16-year-old's mother told police that the headmistress of the school where they had gone to seek admission lashed out at the girl for the gesture before asking her to “get out”.

16-Year-Old Dalit Student Dies by Suicide, SC/ST Act Invoked Against Tamil Nadu Headmistress

Police in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district have added sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to a case against the headmistress of a government school following the suicide of a 16-year-old Dalit student. The student, identified as P Nishanti, was studying in Class 11. Her family has alleged that she died by suicide after facing caste-based discrimination and humiliating behaviour from the headmistress …