Boy ends life as father refuses to buy him motorbike

Kolkata: A Class IX student, whose body was found hanging in his room, apparently committed suicide after his father refused to buy him a motorbike, family sources said on Saturday.

The victim, Sonu Haldar, a resident of Radhagovindapally in South 24 Parganas district`s Sonarpur, was alone in his house on Friday, the sources said.

Haldar had been pestering his father for some time to buy him a motorbike. But the father did not agree.

Police, however, said they were looking at all angles.