Jamshedpur, Jan. 31: Ajay Verma, the father of the 15-year-old boy who was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel at Netaji Subhas Public School, Pokhari, today made a fresh appeal to the superintendent of police, East Singhbhum.

Kumar Rahul, a boarder at the residential school, was found dead on Monday morning. Verma, who believes there was some foul play in the death, has sought the superintendent of police, East Singhbhum, Ashish Batra?s help in getting an impartial probe into the alleged suicide.

Verma, a constable in the East Singhbhum police who has the jurisdiction over the areas the school is located in, had lodged a similar complaint with the MGM police yesterday.

The greiving father had alleged that it could not be a suicide, despite such a claim from the school authorities, after a piece of cloth was discovered in the boy?s mouth.

Verma has asked how his son could have hung himself without assistance from the ceiling fan, as it was at a considerable height. Moreover, he stated, how could Kumar do the act and get away with it especially as there were at least nine other students sleeping in the same room.

The father has also alleged the school?s secretary, Madan Mohan Singh, was spreading rumours that Kumar was being neglected by the father as the boy was his first wife?s son.

The secretary had pointed out that Kumar?s parents had not come to see the boy on two consecutive Sundays. But Verma countered that neither he nor his wife ever visited their son on a Sunday.

?I do not know why Madan Mohan Singh has been spreading rumours about my son being frustrated because of us. We had never been to NSPS on a Sunday. This can be verified by perusing the visitors? register,? said Verma.