Date:24/05/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/24/stories/2005052417740400.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Inter student ends life

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Reportedly worried over failing to secure high percentage of marks in Inter first year exams, a student, Suman Tejarsha, 16, committed suicide by hanging in his house at New Bakaram on Monday. His mother send him on some chore to the first floor of the house around 1.45 p.m. After some time, she found his body hanging from the ceiling.

He had secured 77 per cent marks in Inter first year, as against the expected 99 per cent.

His mother told police that he appeared to be depressed since then.