Date:02/09/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/09/02/stories/2005090202450500.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Poor results drive three students to suicide

Staff Reporter

VTU announces results of all semesters of BE

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 on Wednesday.

The police said Neolina (20), daughter of Justice Nagamohan Das, a High Court judge, hanged herself from the ceiling fan at her house in J.P. Nagar 3rd phase on Thursday morning. The police said Neolina was a second semester student of C.M.R. Institute of Technology here. The J.P. Nagar police have registered a case.

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

Eighteen-year-old Nivedita committed suicide by hanging herself with a "duppatta" at her house on Subedar Chatram Road in Gandhinagar in Upparpet Police Station.

Niveditha'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.