12 students commit suicide after Board exam results

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NDTV, Bhopal :
At least twelve students, including six girls, committed suicide in parts of Madhya Pradesh as they were depressed over their results of class X and XII exams conducted by the state board, police said on Saturday.
A brother-sister duo from Satna district were among those who took the extreme step. While the boy studied in class X, his sister was a student of class XII, police said.
All the suicides were reported till late night, hours after the exam results announced by the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE).
According to police,
these suicides were reported from different places in the state, including Satna, Chhatarpur, Guna, Indore, Balaghat, Gwalior, Tikamgarh, Bhind, Jabalpur and Bhopal districts.
“Three students, including the brother-sister duo, committed suicide in Satna district after they failed in the board exams,” police spokesperson and forensic officer Dr JS Yadav said.
“Rashmi Pandey (18), and her brother Dipendra Pandey (15) ended their lives by hanging themselves in their rooms in Khamriya Paysiyan village under Kolgwan police station area. Both of them had failed in the exam,” he said. “Similarly, Reena Singh of class XII ended her life after getting supplementary (not passing) in one subject in Purva village under Singhpur police station area in Satna district,” he said.
Naman Kadve, a class X student of Excellence School in Bhopal, allegedly commited suicide by injecting himself with a toxic substance at his home as he could not score 90 per cent in the exam, in-charge of Bhopal’s Habibganj police station, Ravindra Yadav, said.
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