Nirosha Irangani the mother of the student who hanged himself states the school student who excelled at the year five scholarships scoring 170 marks in 2013 from Shanthi-Pura School was admitted to the Nuwara Eliya national school in 2014.And was very ambitious to become an astronaut. On the day the incident took place her son Chanuka was at home reading a paper while she locked her house and went out at around 12.10pm. To attend her younger son’s parent teacher meeting.
On the way she has met her younger son on his way home and asked him to go home and that his father will be coming for lunch. While she was at the parent teacher meeting a person seated nearby had asked her to go home as there is an incident taken place.
When she arrived she noticed the area residents have gathered opposite her house. When she entered the house she saw her son had hanged himself.
Later on we found a letter written by the boy stating that he committed suicide due to an incident which took place in the school. She stressed that she believed in the fact written in the letter that the boy committed suicide due to an incident which happened in school as the deceased was complaining of such an instance.
And on this particular day he did not go to school since he was having a stomach ache. And the parents were to go to the school the next day and inquire into the matter. The principal giving evidence stated that the boy and two other students were ask to inform their parent to come to school on Monday for an disciplinary action to be taken as the boys were involved in disconnecting electricity in the main hall
And she insisted that these boys were not given any sort of punishment the parents were asked to come only to make sure that these boys refrained from doing anything of this sort in the future since this could be a threat to their life. Few others also gave evidence into the investigation on the student’s death.
The post mortem of the Chanuka Kalhara was conducted by the Nuwara eliya general hospital judicial medical officer Gayan Kumarasiri and given a verdict that the death was due to hanging and officer into sudden death inspector Rahula Udugamage handed over the body to the parents.
The final rights were conducted yesterday (21) at the Nuwara Eliya burial grounds.