A Class XII student of Don Bosco Park Circus was found dead in a pool of blood on the ground floor of the Urbana housing complex, near Ruby hospital, on Monday morning, police said.

He is believed to have jumped off the washroom window of their flat on the 24th floor around 10am.

The boy’s father, a chartered accountant, and elder brother, who is an engineering student, were in the flat when he apparently went to the washroom.

The police said the family had told them that the boy, a student of commerce, was anxious about his board exams, due in a few months. He had secured around 96 per cent marks in his Class X board exams.

“He was part of the school football team. He was good in studies and had scored close to 80 per cent in the Class XI final exams,” the principal of the school said.

Witnesses have told the police that the boy had landed on a bicycle kept on a pathway on the ground floor before hitting the floor.

“A preliminary post-mortem report suggests he died of severe head injury. He had also suffered multiple fractures,” said an officer of Anandapur police station. “We have started a case of unnatural death. We have not received any complaints from the family.”