SSLC student commits suicide

A 15-year-old student of SSLC committed suicide after she was disallowed to write her exams as she had forgotten her hall ticket.

Police said Shantala, a student of Government High School in Jeevan Bhima Nagar in Bangalore ended her life at her residence in Murugeshapalya in HAL Police station limits in the City after she was denied denied entry into the examination centre without the hall ticket.

Her distraught mother Umadevi told reporters that her daughter had left the hall ticket in her mathematics text book, which she did not carry for the examination. When the examination authorities refused to allow her to write the examination, she returned home and ended her life.

The deceased Shantala is the daughter of Umadevi, a garment factory worker, and T S Ravi, a security guard. Residents of Murugeshapalya staged a demonstration in front of the examination centre seeking an explanation from the authorities. Later, Education department officials and police pacified the agitated crowd.