Four girls commit suicide in Bangalore

In a shocking incident, four girls studying in a high school in Bangalore entered into a suicide pact on Saturday.

Three of the four girls, who had consumed unidentified tablets laced with insecticide, have died while the fourth girl is recovering at a hospital in Bangalore.

The four girls, all of whom are aged 15 years, and students of tenth standard at Nagaraj Memorial School at Magadi Road in Bangalore, were close friends and resided in the same locality.

After finishing school on Saturday, the four of them returned home for lunch and left soon thereafter informing their parents that they were attending a special class. “Apparently, they consumed the pills behind the railway quarters near their houses. An auto driver, who saw them vomiting, immediately rushed them to Victoria Hospital”, a senior police officer said.

Out of the four students, Ammu, Divya and Jayanti have died while their friend Hamsaveni, who is out of danger, is the lone survivor.

Before committing suicide, the four girls had drafted a note in Kannada, which said that neither their parents nor their teachers were to be blamed for their step. “We do not wish to live anymore. We have not taken this step in haste. Please donate our eyes and do not subject our bodies to post-mortem. Please conduct our last rites together. Though we were not born together, we want to at least die united”, the suicide note said.

The police, which is baffled at the quartet’s suicide pact, are planning to investigate the lone survivor Hamsaveni over the motive behind their extreme step. However, Hamsaveni is reported to have told her family that her friends pushed her to the step.

The police is waiting for Hamsaveni to recover as she presently too weak and sensitive to questioning.

School’s headmaster Sudhakar said the four girls were close friends and were seen together. “They used to sit next to each other and answer questions in a group. They were bright students and we were expecting them to score a distinction in the SSLC examination”, he said.