Ranchi, March 14: An ICSE examinee tried to commit suicide today by consuming phenyl after faring badly in her Biology paper yesterday.
Rashmi (name changed), a Class X student of Bishop Westcott Girls’ School, Doranda, returned home after answering her examination and locked herself in her room.
However, she came out after a couple of hours, changed, had her meal and went back to her room again. She took a bottle a phenyl with her. Her mother, who found her movement suspicious, followed her into the room only to find her drinking the pesticide.
She rushed to her daughter and snatched the bottle from her hand. But the girl had gulped a few swigs of the liquid by then.
She was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, where the doctors neutralised the toxin. According to the hospital sources, she had not drunk much of the phenyl and was out of danger.
But the family is still in shock. According to the family members, the girl was not willing to appear for her examinations right from the beginning. “She told me several times that she had not prepared well and would not be able to do justice to the papers. But the Class X examinations are important and we thought that she was scared.”
The girl refused to comment. But her mother said, “I caught her in the nick of time. She did not lock her room the second time she went in. It is very shocking. We have decided that she should drop her examinations this year as she is not in a condition to sit for the rest of the papers.” The girl’s father also said he would not pressure her to appear for the rest of the examination. “She was very upset after yesterday’s paper. But we never thought that she would take such a drastic step.” Many ISCE students felt that the Biology paper was tough.
This is the second such incident in the capital. Sometime ago, a Plus Two student of Guru Nanak School committed suicide by hanging herself after she was disappointed with one of her papers in the CBSE examination. Her suicide raised an outcry with students alleging that they were unhappy with the line-up of the Plus Two papers.
The examination began with Physics and students complained that a difficult paper at the beginning aggravated nerves.
