Girl Kills Self Over Below Par Marks

Published: 23rd May 2015

VELLORE: Disappointed after scoring less marks than expected in the class X board examination, a 15-year-old girl who had allegedly immolated herself at her house in Periyar Street in Kazhinjur, succumbed to burns at the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital, late on Thursday.

Sujitha

The girl was identified as Sujitha, a student of a private matriculation school. She scored 416 marks in the exam. She took the extreme step minutes after she reached home from an Internet centre nearby, on the day of the results.

The girl had expected to score over 480 marks in the exam.  “After returning from the internet centre with a print out of the marks at 11.30 am, she went inside the house telling her family that she is going to keep the marksheet in a room and then locked it. She imolated herself by dousing her body in kerosene,” said a neighbour. The Viruthampet Police registered a case in this regard.