Two Class 10 Dalit girls allegedly committed suicide in a scheduled caste (SC) hostel run by the Telangana government in Bangir after being scolded by their teachers for misbehaving with lower-class students.

An initial police investigation revealed the girls felt “scared” and “embarrassed” after being reprimanded. After police found a suicide note in their room, the girls, who attended a public school, said they had been wrongly implicated in a matter that had nothing to do with them.

In their suicide note, they claimed that only the hostel warden, Shailaja, believed in their innocence.

Reports said the girls wrote a suicide note citing the events that took place on February 3. times of india. “No one believes us. We are being framed for something we didn’t do. We can’t deal with it, so we are killing ourselves. Have our funeral together,” the suicide note read.

District Education Officer Narayan Reddy said toy“It appears that there were complaints from students in the lower grades about the two girls, but it was just a minor issue.”

The warden came and advised them. But it appears the girls were deeply disturbed by the incident,” he said.

The girls’ families are in shock. One parent expressed disbelief, saying: “We don’t believe they wrote this letter just to praise their warden. It’s puzzling why their teachers and wardens responded when complaints were made against them. We were not notified. The police should investigate their role.”

A police officer involved in the investigation said: “The parents claimed that these people were engaged in suspicious activities that led to the girl’s death. They also claimed that the handwriting on the suicide note did not match any of the students.”

Protests broke out on the hostel campus as parents and relatives of the two girls demanded an investigation into the deaths. They called for immediate action against the hostel wardens, staff and auto drivers responsible for supplying groceries and vegetables to the hostels.

The police have opened a case to investigate the suspicious death under Article 174 of the Criminal Procedure Law (unnatural death) and summoned the hotel staff and the car driver for questioning.

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