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 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. 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. 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. The incident came to light when her younger brother Gyanendra visited her room and found her body hanging from the ceiling. He informed his parents who alerted Dial 100 team.In their statement, the parents said that Gayatri was a good student and had scored 70% marks in High school and wanted to become a teacher.Her uncle Ram Sharan, said, “She had last spoken to her mother Sangita at around 12.30 am and said that after studying for nearly an hour, she will go to sleep.”Police send the girl’s body for post-mortem examination and investigations were underway.

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