In a series of distressing events, a total of three students, two in Odisha and one in Noida, died by suicide due to the pressure of examinations.
Two students allegedly took their own lives in separate incidents in Odisha’s Ganjam and Bhadrak districts, police said on Friday, as PTI reported.The suicide incidents came to light when the students were appearing in the annual Plus-II and matriculation (Class 10) examinations.
The body of a second-year male student in Plus II Science was found hanging in his residence at Suryanagar in the Baidyanathpur area of Berhampur in Ganjam district on Friday morning. Concurrently, a Class 10 boy was found hanging at Jahangir Sasan village in Bhadrak district.
The Plus-II student, enrolled at Nilakantheswar Sishu Mandir in Berhampur, was allegedly caught engaging in malpractice during the physics examination at Khallikote College on Thursday.
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In the other case, a Class 10 student from Mayurbhanj district residing at his maternal aunt’s house was supposed to write the English paper in the ongoing matriculation examination on Friday. However, his body was discovered hanging hours before the commencement of the English paper, according to family members.
While some suspect that the suicides may be a result of examination stress, the uncle of the deceased Class 10 student, Madhabananda Mishra, stated: “I don’t think he ended his life due to stress caused by the examination. He had received a message from a girl who had written that she is going to die. When his aunt asked about the message, he avoided and deleted the content from his phone.”
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Meanwhile on Thursday, in another student suicide case, a 19-year-old killed himself by jumping off from the 22nd floor of a high-rise residential building in Greater Noida West. The deceased was a resident of Mahagun Mywoods, falling under the jurisdiction of the Bisrakh police station.
The student, who was sitting for his Class 12 board exams, took this extreme step at around 4.20 pm on Thursday — just after returning home from sitting for his English exam, according to the police.
“The parents of the deceased told the police that their son had returned home today (Thursday) after sitting for his Class 12 English Core examination. Later, he went to the terrace on the 22nd floor of the building…,” said a police officer, according to The Indian Express.
Notably, the boy had failed Class 12 previously as well.