Class-X student 'commits suicide'

Staff Correspondent
A class-X student allegedly committed suicide hanging herself from a ceiling fan at Kadamtali in the capital's East Jurain early yesterday. Ishrat Jahan Ima, 16, was a student of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College on Bailey Road. Father of the deceased Iman Ali is an expatriate in Saudi Arabia. A relative, preferring not to be named, said Ima went to bed alone around 1:00am as her mother and sister slept in another room. The mother found her hanging in her bedroom from the ceiling fan around 6:00am. Aminul Islam, sub-inspector (SI) of Kadamtali Police Station, said they recovered the body from the bed around 7:00am. Relatives of Ima said she had been mentally disturbed since last year and undergone psychological counselling. An unnatural death case was filed in this connection, said the SI.