The boy, studying in the fifth standard, was playing with his friends when his father scolded him, they said.
The boy in a huff went to the bathroom with a towel.
The parents, who were waiting for their son for long, broke open the door and found him hanging from a towel on a pipe and immediately rushed him to a government hospital.
However, the doctors declared the boy brought dead and sent the body for post-mortem, the police said.