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Poor results drive three students to suicide

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Disappointed over their poor performance in engineering examinations, three girls, one of them a daughter of a Karnataka High Court judge, committed suicide in the city.

The Visvesvaraya Technological University announced the results of engineering examinations of different semesters on Wednesday.

The police said Neolina (20), daughter of Nagamohan Das, a High Court judge, hanged herself from the ceiling fan at her house in 3rd Phase, J.P. Nagar, on Thursday.

The police said Neolina was a second semester student of biotechnology engineering at C.M.R. Institute of Technology here. She had learnt about her results from the Internet. The J.P. Nagar police have registered a case.

In another incident, Shruthi (21), daughter of Narasimha Murthy, committed suicide by hanging herself at her house in Sriramapuram today. She was a student of Vivekananda Engineering College, the police said. The Sriramapuram police have registered a case.

In a similar incident reported from Upparpet police station limits on Wednesday, eighteen-year-old Nivedita committed suicide by hanging herself with a "duppatta" at her house on Subedar Chatram Road in Gandhinagar.

Nivedita's father, Ganesh, is an advocate. She was a student of a private engineering college in Tumkur and had failed in her first semester examination, the police said. The Upparpet police have registered a case.

It is learnt that one of the students had received a phone call from an acquaintance who told her that she had failed. But later her parents learnt that she had cleared the examination.

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