Nearly eight months after a nine-year-old girl died by suicide at a private school in Jaipur, her parents have released new CCTV footage from her classroom, claiming it shows repeated bullying by classmates and a lack of teacher intervention despite the child pleading for help with “folded hands”.
The Class 4 student allegedly jumped from the fourth floor of the school building on November 1 last year. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared her dead upon arrival. The release of the footage comes weeks after Rajasthan Police filed a chargesheet in the case.
“I approached the teacher five times.”
The girl’s mother claimed that her daughter was bullied by a colleague for about an hour while the teacher did not intervene. She said it all “started with the boy who was sitting in front of her,” NDTV reported.
The distressed mother told the TV channel: “My daughter (the child’s name has been withheld to protect her identity) was constantly asking him to look forward, and to look at the board. She was a disciplined child. She was on her seat, not moving or complaining.”
The mother added: “After 55 minutes of bullying, she went to the teacher. You can see that there was a gesture like this (mimic with folded hands) Ma’am, Ma’am. It takes a lot of courage, a lot of courage to approach the class teacher five times. Not once, five times. Five times she went to the teacher to explain. She kept saying Ma’am, I didn’t do this. I didn’t say that, Ma’am. No, Ma’am, no.”
She also alleged that the teacher failed to respond appropriately, “the teacher cornered her, and she participated in the bullying.”
The family also states that the child seemed happy the night before and reportedly celebrated Halloween. However, inside the classroom, she was “showing all the worrying signs, and putting her hands on her forehead. This means that the child is going through something huge, something very traumatic that you see on the digital menu,” the mother was quoted as saying.
The CBSE panel cited 18 months of bullying
According to an HT report in November last year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had issued a show-cause notice to the Jaipur school after a two-member committee investigated the incident.
The commission found that “the site of the fall had been washed out” before the forensic examination, and noted that the school had ignored repeated complaints of bullying made by the girl’s parents over a period of nearly 18 months.
According to the panel’s findings, Amaira approached her homeroom teacher five times in the last 45 minutes before the incident regarding notes allegedly written by classmates on a digital roster.
CCTV footage reviewed by the committee reportedly showed that the teacher “took no corrective action” even though the child appeared “confused,” “embarrassed” and “extremely upset.” The committee also noted that she was not referred to a school counselor despite showing signs of distress, raising concerns about compliance with CBSE standards for anti-bullying and counselling.
Parents body seeks investigation into teacher appointments
Meanwhile, parents’ organization Sanyukt Abhibhavak Sangh on Friday demanded an independent investigation into alleged irregularities in teacher appointments, qualifications and regulatory compliance at the school.
According to a PTI report, the group’s spokesperson, Abhishek Jain Bittu, cited documents submitted before the Rajasthan High Court and alleged discrepancies in teacher recruitment and employment records.
“The CBSE examination records reflect a sharp change in the strength of teachers between the 2024-25 and 2025-26 academic sessions and not many appointment letters and qualification records were produced during the inspection,” he claimed.
