Patna, March 23: Fearing she would flunk in the exam, a 20-year-old engineering student ended her life taking a plunge into Ganga.

The girl, identified as Neha Kumari, was a student of an engineering college in Bangalore and lived in Choti Yusuf Chak village under the Industrial Area police station in Hajipur in Vaishali district.

Neha jumped to her death on March 17. Her body was recovered the next morning from Sabarpur Ghat near Didarganj area of Patna City.

A source said the current of the river water dragged Neha’s body up to Patna City.

“It got stuck at the ghat. Fishermen fished it out of the water,” said a source.

The police succeeded in identifying the body on March 20. An officer of Didarganj police station said the family of the deceased had not provided much information to them.

“The family had come down to take possession of the body. They left in a hurry,” said the officer.

He said: “The victim’s father, Prem Chandra Chaudhary, said her daughter had seen her result on her laptop. But the results were incomplete. She thought she had failed and was very depressed.”

The family of the deceased would return to Didarganj police station after conducting her last rites. They would give the police all the information then, the officer said.

Incidentally, when the family checked the results, they found that Neha had passed.

“It is an unfortunate incident. Her results published on the Internet were incomplete. But when her father checked her results later, he found that she had passed,” the police officer said.

The cops were, however, unable to say which college the girl studied in.

“Neha’s family was not in a position to provide us with any information. So we have decided to wait for a couple of days,” the officer said.

He also said: “The postmorterm report will arrive on March 24. The doctors have said that it was a case of suicide.”

No FIR has been lodged in the case so far. The cops have treated the incident as an unidentified death case.

At least 12 youths committed suicide in the state in the first three months this year. A Patna-based psychologist said: “Parents need to be close to their children. Youths should feel confident enough to approach their guardians if they are stressed out or depressed. Only then can such incidents be avoided.”

Anil Kumar, another psychologist, said: “Children are under enormous pressure these days. Very few parents can understand their real problems. The conditions are critical and something needs to be done about it.”

Parents should be friendly with their wards and abstain from pressurising them on the education front, added Anil.