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'Amaira Gave Distress Signal': Jaipur Couple Recalls Daughter's Final Hours

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Shiv Aroor, Samiran Mishra
'Amaira Gave Distress Signal': Jaipur Couple Recalls Daughter's Final Hours
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The parents of a nine-year-old girl who died at Neerja Modi School in Jaipur are calling for accountability after reviewing CCTV footage. They believe the footage shows their daughter being bullied by classmates shortly before her fatal fall.

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The case highlights critical concerns regarding school safety, the prevalence of bullying, and the responsibility of educational institutions to monitor student welfare.

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Before the release of the CCTV footage, Amaira's parents say they had only questions. Months after the death of their nine-year-old daughter, they say they now have a sequence of images that, in their view, reveals her final hours at school but still does not give the answers they have been seeking. Speaking to NDTV, the Jaipur couple described the latest footage as a minute-by-minute account of what they believe was an episode of bullying, repeated appeals for help, and a series of missed opportunities from the school administration to intervene before Amaira, a Class 4 student at Neerja Modi School, fell from the fourth floor of the campus on November 1 last year."The boy who was sitting in front of her is showing something to her on a digital slate. First of all, I would like to tell that digital slates are not allowed in this school.

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