GHAZIABAD: A 34-year-old woman attempted suicide on Wednesday by consuming painkillers in large quantity over alleged ill-treatment meted out to her eight-year-old son by his school teachers and the police’s refusal to file a complaint.In a suicide note, Aarti Sachan claimed three teachers of St Mary’s Convent School in Shastri Nagar were targeting her son for the past one year over small issues while the SHO of Kavi Nagar police station and an official not only refused to lodge a complaint but also told her to end her life at home.Manoj Sachan, the woman’s husband, said his wife had consumed some 40 painkillers around 9pm on Wednesday and lost her consciousness. She was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Kavi Nagar, “where she is said to be out of danger now”. According to Manoj, the trouble started soon after the couple’s son was promoted to Class IV last year.“My son has been studying in the school for the past five years and we never faced any trouble. He has won several scholarships and medals in various co-curricular activities and Olympiad exams. We also did not delay in depositing school fees, and I am quite clueless why my son was being harassed by some school teachers,” he said.Manoj, an executive with a Noida-based private firm, said they had sent several notes in their son’s school diary, seeking an explanation from the three teachers for their behaviour but never got any reply.“Last week, my son was allegedly attacked by a girl with a compass and when he tried to raise a complaint, no attention was paid to it. Subsequently, Aarti had gone to the school on January 26 and tried to reason with the teachers but her effort like in the past did not fetch any results,” he alleged.When contacted, Sister Kathleen Augustine, the school principal, denied the allegations and said a girl from the same class had poked the boy with a compass after he pulled her hair, and instead of complaining the matter to the teacher who was present in the class, he went and complained to his class teacher who was teaching in another class.“He was told to apprise the matter to the teacher concerned, instead he went home and complained to her mother. The woman wrote a very offensive and threatening note to the class teacher and a few days later came to the school and attacked a teacher with a compass. She was also carrying a pair of scissors. We have even a lodged a police complaint in the matter,” the principal said.SSP Upendra Kumar Agrawal told TOI that SP (city) Shlok Kumar had called a meeting of both the parents and the teachers on Friday.

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