The residence of Stuti Mishra in Ranchi on Friday. Picture by Hardeep Singh

Ranchi, April 29: A 21-year-old chemistry honours student of Ranchi Women’s College was found hanging from the ceiling at her Ashok Nagar residence this morning.

Stuti Mishra, a Part II student and daughter of a government official, was apparently frustrated for not being able to clear her engineering entrance and so took the extreme step, family sources said.

It was 8.30am, when uncle Naveen Kumar Mishra saw the girl hanging from the ceiling fan with a dupatta.

Stuti was rushed to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, where doctors declared her brought dead and the body was sent for post-mortem.

Naveen Kumar said he became suspicious when he found one of the rooms on the first floor of their triple-storey building shut.

“We are six brothers and live in a joint family. All the doors of our house remain open during the day. I became all the more suspicious because my niece was depressed over her failure in the competitive examination. I called her, but did not get any response. So, I broke open the door and found her hanging. I went closer and she was still breathing. I managed to bring her down and first took her to a local doctor and then rushed her to hospital, but she could not be saved,” he said.

No FIR has been registered in this connection so far.

“An FIR will be registered only after we get official information from Bariatu police, as the unnatural death took place at RIMS,” officer in charge of Argora police station Kumar Saryu Anand said.

Stuti’s father Arwind Mishra is the travelling veterinary officer in the state animal husbandry department.

She was the eldest of two sisters and was always academically good.