Kadapa, March 2: In an incident of shame, a minor girl studying in class tenth of a private school in Kadapa district Andhra Pradesh attempt suicide on last Sunday after she was allegedly raped by two students of the same school. The girl was depressed over the school management’s threats and attempts to cover up the incident and jumped from the third floor of the school building after narrating what happened in her Mathematics exam paper on Monday.

According to the police, the incident came to light after the parents of the girl lodged a formal complaint in this regard with the Proddatur One Town police late on Thursday night, said the officer, as reported by The New Indian Express. He further stated that parents waited for their daughter to regain conscious to lodge a complaint against the accused. Maharashtra Shocker: Minor Raped, Impregnated by 12-Yr Old Boy in Palghar, Accused Absconding. 

Earlier, the management in order to cover up the incident, has shifted the girl to Kurnool for treatment and had described it as an accident. However, after the girl regained conscious, she explained the entire incident to her parents.

The parents of the girl – resident Chinna Dandluru village in Yerraguntla Mandal – informed that she has been studying in the private school at Proddatur since she was in lower kindergarten (LKG). She was staying the hostel along with four other girls, one boy and a caretaker.

Briefing more about the incident, the parents said that the girl was alone in her hostel on Sunday (February 24) as her roommates went to their native village. During the time of dinner, when the girl was alone, her male classmate knocked the door and asked for a notebook. She told him to wait and in the meantime, he – along with his senior – entered the room and raped the girl.

Police have registered the complainant and are investigating the matter.

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