On Monday evening, Harika Raj, a class X student take her life by allegedly jumping off a three-storey building at Chikkajala.
Harika Raj,16, was a student of Oxford English School in Shakti Nagar, Chikkajala, was the eldest daughter of Rajkumar, a second Division Assistant working at the Vidhana Soudha.
The family hailing from Kolar settled in the City several years ago. They were residing in a rented portion in the three-storey Tayappa Building at Jala hobli for the past two months. Harika’s mother is a homemaker and her younger brother Goutham Raj is studying in Class V, also a student of Oxford English School.
On Monday, In the morning, Harika wrote a unit test at the school, returned home and afterwards attended a special class in the afternoon.
She returned home along with her younger brother in the evening. While Harika’s mother was with the her brother on the ground floor, Harika went to the terrace of the building and jumped to her death. Neighbours immediately reached the spot as the girl came crashing down with a huge thud. She suffered multiple injuries and died on the spot.
An heartbroken Rajkumar, the girl’s father was at a loss as to why his daughter took the extreme step.
He said the girl suffered from severe migraine from her childhood and was under medication. The girl was only average in her studies. However, there was no pressure on her at home,he added.He also said the girl was not involved in an affair or any such issues.
According to Girija, the girl’s teacher, though the girl was average in studies, she had some health issues and they took extra care of her at school.
The teacher was still in school when she came to know of her death. She said she was clueless why the girl committed suicide.
The body was shifted to Dr B R Ambedkar Medical College where an postmortem would be conducted on Tuesday morning. A case of unnatural death have been registered by . Chikkajala police.