A 17‑year‑old student, who had scored 95.7 per cent marks in his Class 12 science exams, allegedly died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Thane city after failing to secure admission to his preferred higher education institute, police said.
Upon seeing the message and finding his phone switched off, his family immediately alerted the Kasarvadavali police. The police and family members rushed to search the locality and found the teenager lying severely injured on a pavement near his apartment. An accidental death report (ADR) has been registered based on a statement given by the teen’s father. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
However, before anyone could intervene, the boy jumped to his death from the 22nd-floor refuge area of a residential building on September 4 evening, the police said on Monday. The teenager recently passed his Class 12 science exams with a score of 95.7 per cent and aspired to pursue a BS-MS dual degree at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur (Kolkata), the police said. However, he fell short of securing a seat after ranking 10,474 in the aptitude test.
The boy’s family suspects no foul play, attributing the extreme step entirely to academic distress, according to police. His disappointment deepened after failing to secure admission in the reputed institute, they said. He was rushed to the Civil Hospital in Thane, where doctors declared him dead on arrival, the police said.
