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Teen kills self over bad report card
In the fourth suicide by a Lucknow student in a week, a 16-year-old state-level Taekwando player killed himself by jumping in front of a train. He had failed in his Class XI exams.
All the four suicides have been blamed on exam stress and the pressure to perform.
Gaurav���s mutilated body was found on the railway tracks on Sunday morning.
A resident of Saraswa-tipuram in Gomtinagar police circle, Gaurav was a student of Modern Academy in Viram Khand. His final exam results were declared on March 31, in which he scored an aggregate of 18%.
"He has been suffering from depression ever since the results came on Monday," said Gaurav���s mother Asha Singh.
"I had taken him to school authorities on Wednesday and requested them to allow him to attend Class XII provisionally," she said.
Asha Singh said the school management not only denied the request but also hauled up Gaurav for his poor performance.
"This left my son all the more disturbed," said Asha Singh, who had lost her husband Jagdish Singh in 2005.
In an FIR lodged with the Gomtinagar police, Asha Singh accused the school authorities of driving her son to suicide.
Mordern Academy director Rajeev Tuli denied the charges. According to his mother, Gaurav���s performance had started dipping recently.
"Till Class X he was securing 50%-60% marks."
This was the fourth suicide of a student in Lucknow in the past one week. On Wednesday, Abhishek Tewari (17) of City Montessori School���s Rajendra Nagar branch ended his life at his house at Rakabganj. Abhishek was disturbed after his parents were summoned to the school and pulled up by his class teacher for performing badly in exams.
The same day, Pinki, a Class XII student of Lucknow Public School, also committed suicide after she realised that her examinations had not gone well.
On Monday, Priya Bose, a student of Class VIII at City Montessori School, Kanpur road, hanged herself to death after she failed in her exams.
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