Girl fails in exam, ends life

NEW DELHI: An 19-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in her house in Harsh Vihar, east Delhi. The victim, Shalu Singh, had failed in her second year exams and was caught while cheating during one of her papers, said the police.
The police said they received a call on Thursday morning about the suicide. When they reached the spot, they found the girl hanging from ceiling in a room inside her house.The room was bolted from inside and no suicide note was found from the spot, said a police officer.
The girl's father, a retired armyman, was sleeping in another room along with his wife and son. "The family told us the girl was studying at a college in Ghaziabad and was depressed for the past few days,'' said a police officer.
In another incident, 35-year-old Rajiv Bhagat, a private security guard employed by CPWD allegedly committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling inside a bunglow on Chanakyapuri Road in New Delhi district. The bunglow was lying unoccupied at present. The police said he was suffering from acute asthma and was depressed. No suicide note was recovered from the spot.