Kalimpong: The body of 20-year-old Suchitra Chettri, who had been missing from Saturday, was recovered from the bottom of a cliff at Ramitaytar on the outskirts of the town today.
Suchitra, who studied in Class XII in Sai Institute of Education and Research (formerly known as Kamal Jyoti School) here, had apparently committed suicide by jumping off the edge of the cliff from a height of more than 1,000 ft, police said.
According to family sources, Suchitra had been reprimanded by her uncle on Friday evening after she returned late from school and lied to him about it. “She told me that the principal had held her back, but when I called up her principal, he denied doing so,” said her uncle G.B. Chettri.
Originally from Teesta village, Suchitra, had been brought up by Chettri, who is a resident of East Main Road here. Chettri had brought the girl to the hill town after her mother left them and her father hit the bottle. It was her uncle who lodged a missing persons’ diary at the Kalimpong police station on Saturday. However, despite the efforts of the police, her family and friends, she remained untraced till today.
Early this morning, a couple of boys, who were out for a stroll near Ramitaytar, came across a pair of lady’s sandals lying in the area. Having heard about the missing girl, they searched around and chanced upon what to them looked like a body below the cliff. They immediately informed the residents of the area and with their help they went down and identified the body as Suchitra’s. The police later recovered the body, and sent it for post-mortem.
“It could be a case of suicide,” said Humayun Kabir, additional superintendent of police, Kalimpong.
The principal of her school, D.K. Bhandari, said Suchitra was a disciplined girl and good in studies as well. He said he could never imagine that she could take such a drastic step.
Source: The Telegraph
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