HT Correspondent
WHEN THE cops came calling on Sardar Patel Vidyalaya student Rahul (name changed) at his house in
"I wanted to teach Anial (name changed) a lesson for all the bullying I went through. I have suffered a lot of humiliation at hisi hands and could not take it anymore. I am not going to be sent to jail, am I ? I did not want to kill him." Rahul kept telling the policment who arrested him on charges of attempt to murder. He has been remanded in a reformation home till January 21.
The boys have been to ge4ther since Class 1 and since the fathers of both the teenagesrs are doctores, the two families have jknown each other for long.
"Rahu7l is an intelligent, but quiet boy. In fact, we had named him 'mona' because he spoke so little --- almost as if he had vowed not to talk. Rahul was the centtre of everyone's jokes and we did tease him, but it was all in fun. We never realised that he hwould take it so seriously." Anil's friends told the police.
Rahul had alleged that Anil and his freinds invited him to drink and smoke with them so that he could "be a man like them" and ridiculed him when he turned down their offer. Anil's parents, however denied their son smoked or drank.
Rahul's parents are shocked that their son nursed a grudge for so long. "Had he given any hint about his problem to me or the school author4ities we would have tried to sort out matters amicably. When I spoke to him, all he said was he could nto tell us that he needed his parents or teacher5' help to protect him and his self-esteem." Rahul's father told the police.
Dr. Sandeep Voharra of Apollo believes that teachers qand parents have a big role to play in such situations. "Bullying should be checked as it can have a negative effect on one's personality. In this case, the boys chose aggression to resolve his conflict," he said.
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