Govt wants school lecturer sacked for wrong marking post student suicide

Suicide By Polytechnic Student

The Jammu and Kashmir Government today proposed the sacking of a senior school lecturer accused of giving wrong marks to the Srinagar teenager who had committed suicide four months ago.
Mohammad Adnan Hilal (17), a first-semester student of a polytechnic, was declared to have failed in physics, which was his favourite subject.
After this, he committed suicide. After re-evaluation, not only did Adnan pass the subject, but topped in his class as well.
“After a time-bound probe, we have found Mushtaq Ahmad Tiploo, senior lecturer at Government Higher Secondary School, Jawahar Nagar, responsible for wrong evaluation,” said Minister for Information and Technology Imran Raza Ansari.
“As the lecturer is from the School Education Department, we have proposed to the department to initiate the strictest action against the lecturer. We have proposed to the department to declare him deadwood officer and to make him retire from his service,” he said.
On June 18, after Adnan got the mark sheet which declared him as having failed, he jumped into the Jhelum. The mark sheet showed that he got 28 marks out of 100 in physics.
After the suicide, his father Hilal Ahmad Gilkar had applied for re-evaluation. After re-evaluation, Adnan scored 48 marks. The batchmates and parents had been seeking justice after re-evaluation declared him as having passed the examination.