ORDER

J.M. Malik, Presiding Member - This is a strange case where the father, Sh. S.K. Pathak, claims compensation for the suicide committed by his son, Sh.Rahul Pathak, student, who was expelled from the Institution on the accusation of ragging for producing a person who impersonated as his guardian, got the pardon and subsequently committed suicide.

2. Shri Rahul Pathak, since deceased, was a student of Engineering College of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, OP. He, unfortunately, passed away on 11.8.2008 in suspicious circumstances. The District Magistrate had ordered a Magisterial Inquiry under provisions of Section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The Joint Collector conducted the inquiry of death. He held all the Members of the Proctor Committee and Senior Officers of the Management liable for the death of Rahul Pathak.

3. Sh. S.K. Pathak, father of the deceased student, filed complaint before the District Forum and claimed compensation in the sum of Rs. 20,00,000 from the OPs. District Forum, vide its order dated 8.2.2011 dismissed the complaint.

4. Aggrieved by that order, the complainant preferred an appeal before the State Commissio