Mumbai: A 17-year-old girl in Navi Mumbai committed suicide on Friday fearing that her college may not give her a hall ticket required for appearing in the HSC examinations, slated to begin on February 18.
The girl left behind a suicide note explaining why she decided to take her life. Her parents said they have no complaints against anyone. The police has also ruled out the possibility of anyone abetting the suicide.
According to Kalamboli police, the incident occurred somewhere between 7 am and 9 am at the flat of the deceased in Kalamboli area of Navi Mumbai. The girl had planned the suicide and hung herself in the hall of the flat at a time when her parents had left for work at 7 am and elder sister was asleep. The sister woke up at 9 am and was the first one to find the minor dead.
The deceased’s father is a rickshaw driver and mother is a teacher. A police official from Kalamboli said that the girl’s attendance at college was not good but it was sufficient to get her a hall ticket. The deceased was an Arts’ student.
On February 3, she had not received the hall ticket while the rest of her friends had received it. The police official said that some verification work of her ticket, along with those of some other students, was underway and hence the work had got delayed.
However, the girl felt that she would not be given a hall ticket. But the college authorities had assured her that she would get the hall ticket on February 1 when she and her father had gone to the college.
Apparently, the deceased was tense for not receiving a hall ticket. In her suicide note written in Marathi, she has apologised to her parents for the humiliation that they would have had to face from the college in order to seek the hall ticket for her.
