In yet another tragic incident, a 17-year-old student committed suicide by jumping from a residential building in Jamia Nagar months after she reportedly failed to clear the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
The girl had been preparing for the engineering entrance exam after completing Class 12.
“Forgive me, I couldn’t do it. I did not clear the JEE exam,” the deceased mentioned in the suicide note found on her, police said.
“Yesterday, at 11:25 am, a PCR call regarding a girl aged 17, jumping off the roof of the 7th floor of a building in Okhla main market was received at PS Jamia Nagar. She was preparing for JEE after clearing the 12th class. She has left a suicide note citing study pressure and not meeting expectations as a reason, the police said in a statement.
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The girl had previously told her mother that she would take her life if she failed the examination. The girl’s father works in the private sector, while her mother is a homemaker.
CCTV footage showing the girl jumping from the roof is being widely circulated on social media.
Further investigation is on, the police added.
