Depressed over Class 12 exam, 17-year-old commits suicide

A day after the CBSE announced Class 12 board exam results, a 17-year-old girl, who failed her Class XII exam for the third year in a row, allegedly committed suicide in the Northeast Delhi’s Harsh Vihar on Friday evening. The Class 12 student had already appeared for the compartment exam twice. DCP (northeast) Atul Thakur told media that an inquest proceeding has been initiated.

After finding out that she had failed her exam yet again, the teen girl returned home, had a meal with her parents and later hung herself from a fan in her room in North East Delhi, said police.

He said that the preliminary probe revealed that the girl had locked herself in her room. After the girl did not respond to her family members, her younger brother went to check and found her hanging from the ceiling fan.

The family rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was declared brought dead and the body was shifted to the mortuary. The body was handed over to the family on Sunday after the autopsy was done.

The girl’s father said, “We don’t know for sure what had actually happened with regard to the exams. We only know that when she came out of the CBSE office, she told my wife that her paper was cancelled. It is possible that she had failed again and was afraid to tell us the truth. We don’t really know.”

The girl had reportedly failed in her Class XII boards in 2017 and could not clear the compartment examination in 2018 as well. She had dropped out of school last year and gave her compartment exam again this year.

The girl’s father told that she was struggling with English. He further added, “To help her pass, I had enrolled her in English tuition classes for all of last year when she was out of school.”

On Friday, after she checked her result at the CBSE headquarters with her mother, she found out that had to re-appear in one of the subjects. The girl’s family members shared that ever since she got this news, she was stressed about taking the exam again and didn’t talk to anyone.

In the evening, she committed suicide. No suicide note was found.