The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that a thirteen-year-old girl student in the VIII standard at a private school allegedly died by suicide in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh on the 23rd of this month. Notices have been issued to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police of the Andhra Pradesh government, calling for a detailed report supported by a thorough probe within four weeks. The incident occurred in the school hostel on the campus in the Reddypalem village panchayat area of the district. The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report raise serious issues regarding the violation of the victim’s human rights, if true.