B’lore: Student scores 85%, but hangs herself

TNN

Mangalore, 15 June 2011: Unhappy with her score of 85% in the recent SSLC exam, M Sunidhi, 16, allegedly committed suicide in her house in Maruti Block, near Gayatrinagar, on Monday evening. Sunidhi had often fretted that she had not scored 90%.

Sunidhi was found hanging in a room by her grandmother Vaidehi, who had gone out and returned at 5pm. Sunidhi, who is from Pavagada near Tumkur, had been staying with her grandmother since one month, after she joined a private college in Malleswaram.

According to her grandmother, Sunidhi was depressed as she had failed to score over 90%. "She would often tell me that she was unhappy that she could not score better. She became more disturbed when she failed to get admission in a college of her choice," Vaidehi told police. Sunidhi’s parents arrived in Bangalore late on Tuesday night, and took the body after a post mortem.