[softy54534]

I have not been able to read beyond 4 pages because the details are too much. But I think this is a case of unfortunate parenting and can happen to any parent/s in present day India also because, when it comes to copying or aping bad things from abroad, India and more particularly the upper class 'elites' are always very fast.

In the present case the boy committed suicide because his room mate was a bully, sort of and he found out the suicidee (?) boy's homosexuality. In India this, or even much worse fate could happen in the name of "ragging". That however is only a difference in name.

I feel the accused boy is not a TB and has been brought up with skin-deep western culture; he was thus like the crow in the fable which had forgotten the crow's walk (Indian ethos) but failed to learn the peacock's walk (here, the good culture from the US. Parents should have been responsible for this fundamental fault, imo.

I will say this boy should get maximum punishment under the US law for driving another young boy to suicide, because such fellows will never improve however much platitudes we may give here. The aim of the Law should be to ensure that he is not able to perpetrate such heinous crime a second time; may be 50 years in prison will do him and the dead boy adequate justice.