Exam fear forces Inter girl to commit suicide

Kanpur | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

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The incident came to light when her younger brother Gyanendra visited her room and found her body hanging from the ceiling. Therefore, she took the extreme step,” said CO Kalyanpur Rajesh Pandey.She hanged herself from the ceiling fan in her room probably during the wee hours. Kanpur: A 17-year-old Intermediate girl student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in Maswanpur locality under the limits of Kalyanpur police station on Tuesday owing to examination fear.Police said a suicide note recovered from her course book points at fear of not doing well in her ongoing UP Board exam as the reason behind the extreme step. She stated that she had not studied well for the paper and didn’t want to waste the precious money of her parents, who adore her a lot. She was pursuing her class XII from an inter college located in Mandhana, police added.The girl, identified as Gayatri, was the eldest among the two children of Ram Avtaar, a resident of Maswanpur.“Going by the suicide note, the girl was afraid of taking her Hindi paper, which was to begin in the second shift on Tuesday..