kakinada depressed over being branded a thief by the principal and physical education teacher pet of a private school a budding shuttler committed suicide here mahadas jyoti swaroop 17 hanged himself from the ceiling at his residence in bapanna dora colony in sarpavaram of kakinada on monday after the pet a rama rao reportedly admonished him over a missing badminton racquet from the school three days ago the pet also told swaroops father that a police complaint would be lodged against his son for stealing the racket which was the last straw for swaroop the promising shuttler who had participated in several state and national school level tournaments was accused of stealing the racquet worth rs 10000 by principal p v n murthy and the pet of jawahar navodaya school at peddapuram where swaroop used to give badminton lessons to the students pursuing his first year ece in andhra polytechnic college swaroop had passed out from the same school and agreed to teach badminton at the requests of the principal and the pet a suicide note recovered from his shirt pocket stated that he had taken the extreme step as he was humiliated by the principal and the pet sources said swaroop had participated in a tournament held at ravulapalem and yanam last week where one of navodaya students had lost the expensive shuttle racquet the father chinnayya dora alleged that his son had taken the drastic step because of severe harassment from murthy and rama rao the principal had called up my son and threatened him with dire consequences if he had not returned the racquet the pet warned him that he would be sent to prison dora said however murthy and rao denied doras allegations and said swaroop had nothing to do with their school neither me nor pet had spoken to swaroop directly murthy claimed