Hyderabad: Inter Board changes stand on result of student who ended life

Hyderabad: In its continuing series of errors, the Board of Intermediate Education on Saturday declared that a student who had committed suicide over poor marks had passed the exam. Hours later, it said she had failed.

The student, Arutla Anamika, had committed suicide on April 8, the day of the results, as she was shown as having got 20 marks in Telugu language and as failed in the examination.

After the row over marks and the subsequent reverification, the family began looking for her results again. Her sister Arutla Udaya found that Anamika had been given 48 marks in Telugu subject.

The family tried to download the marks card as a keepsake but could not. On approaching the BIE, the officials said that it was a mistake. After reverification, Anamika had scored only one mark more and she was still declared failed. A board official put it down to clerical error.

Speaking to this newspaper, Ms Udaya said, “How many times they would commit mistakes and play with the lives of people? We will never know in how many cases such ‘clerical mistakes’ have crept in.”

She said the board had raised the hopes of the family by giving Anamika 48 marks before withdrawing it. “They are playing with our feelings, do they even understand it?”

Speaking about the incident, Mr Achyuta Rao of Balala Hakkula Sangham said, “It is not right to play with the sentiments of the bereaved families. Is it not shameful that the Intermediate Board is making so many mistakes even now after the death of innocent students.”