ITANAGAR: A 19-year-old boy died by suicide at St Xavier’s International School, Aalo, in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Siang district on Sunday, police said.The deceased, Tato Podo, a Class XI student and a resident of Gapur village in Shi-Yomi district, had been staying at the school hostel.Aalo police station officer in-charge Yomken Riram said two students discovered the body, when they noticed that the door of the hostel washroom was bolted from inside. Forcing it open, they found Podo lying unconscious on the floor with a necktie tied around his neck, while the other end was fastened to the door frame.The students immediately alerted the school authorities, who subsequently informed police. A team led by sub-inspector A Pangge secured the area for investigation and sent the body to Aalo general hospital, where the emergency medical officer declared Podo brought dead.“During preliminary enquiry and after reviewing CCTV footage, we are not suspecting any foul play in this case,” Riram said. Surprisingly, Podo’s family members, too, vindicated the police’s statement.Following a written application by his family members for withdrawal of a police case, the body was released without a post-mortem examination, an official said.“They informed police that after verifying the CCTV footage they were convinced that the cause of death was self-inflicted and sought to conduct his last rites according to customary village traditions,” the official said.With the family officially declining police proceedings, no case of Unnatural Death (UD) was registered following their written request and the executive magistrate’s order.Podo’s last rites will be conducted at Gapur on Monday.