‘Cry as much as you want': Inside the last day of a Delhi teen who felt no one cared

Dubai: Sixteen-year-old Shourya Patil left home on Tuesday in his school uniform, unaware that the day he began like any other would end in tragedy.

As his father cared for his ailing mother in Kolhapur, Shourya endured a slow, unseen erosion of confidence and safety within St Columba’s School.

According to what his father later told NDTV, Shourya had been complaining for nearly a year that a few teachers mocked him, scolded him harshly, and regularly insulted him in front of classmates. Each time the family tried to raise the issue, the answer was the same:
His Math was weak. He was distracted. He needed to focus.
When they pushed back, they were allegedly threatened with a Transfer Certificate, a punishment that terrified the boy far more than any test.

A year of hurt

Students who knew him say Shourya was sensitive — the kind of child who tried hard not to disappoint. He carried teachers’ words home with him. A stern remark stayed in his mind all night. A public scolding cut deeper than anyone realised.

According to the police complaint, classmates later admitted that for four days before his death, one teacher repeatedly threatened to call his parents, to “deal with him”, to issue a TC. On one occasion, she allegedly even pushed him.

It was a fear that grew quietly, day after day — a fear adults dismissed, but a child absorbed fully.

The day everything broke

Tuesday began normally, but sometime around midday, the school held a dance practice.
Shourya stepped on stage.
He slipped.
He fell.

Any other child might have laughed it off, got up, and continued.
But Shourya was already battered by a year of humiliation.
That fall wasn’t just a fall — it was the moment everything inside him cracked.

What happened next, according to his father’s account to NDTV, was devastating.

Teachers allegedly: accused him of overacting, removed him from the performance, mocked him in front of his peers andrefused to comfort him even as he cried.

One teacher reportedly looked at him — red-eyed, trembling — and said:

“Cry as much as you want, it doesn’t matter to me.”

The school principal was present, the father says, but did not intervene.

That sentence — cold, dismissive, indifferent — was perhaps the hardest blow of all.

A boy already struggling under months of fear now felt fully exposed, fully abandoned.

The walk no one noticed

After the practice, he left the stage. Not to class. Not to the bus bay.
He walked toward the back gate — the quieter exit, the one fewer people notice.

He didn’t call home.
He didn’t message a friend.
He didn’t go to a teacher he trusted.

He walked out alone.

From the gate, he headed straight to Rajendra Place Metro Station.
According to police (Economic Times), around 2:45 pm, he jumped from Platform 2.

The boy who left home hoping for a normal day never returned.

The note he carried

In his school bag, police found a suicide note.
It was not angry.
It was not vengeful.
It was heartbreakingly gentle.

He apologised to his parents, writing:

“I am breaking your heart for the last time.”

He blamed specific teachers for “repeated harassment”.
And he made one final, painful request:

“Please take action against them. I don’t want any other child to suffer like me.”

He even asked for his organs to be donated — if they were still usable.

A boy who felt the world didn’t care about him still cared about saving someone else.