CHENNAI: With two more students resorting to the extreme step on Friday, the recent spate of student suicides in the city have pointed to a disturbing trend.In the first incident, Class X student P Sangeetha (16) immolated herself when she was alone at her house on Ganga Amman Koil Street, Yerikarai, Maduravoyal, around 7.30 am on Friday. She took the extreme step due to the fear of failing in her board exams, police said. Though she was rushed to a hospital, doctors declared her ‘brought dead’. Police said Sangeetha was a student of the Karnataka Sangha Higher Secondary School in T Nagar. “Her friends and parents told her she would fail as she did not perform well... She had her next exam on Monday,” the investigating officer said. The girl reportedly did not leave a suicide note. Her father Pachamuthu works in the binding section of a private printing press, while her mother is a labourer. Her body was sent to the Kilpauk Medical Hospital for post-mortem. In the second incident, it was the fear that a lump on his neck was cancerous that led 20-year-old BA English literature student Janakiraman to suicide. According to police, Janakiraman, a student of Pachaiyappa’s College and a native of Thirukovilur, was staying with two friends at Adimoola Perumal Koil Street in Vadapalani.Janakiraman, who was said to be suffering from ‘severe pain’ for the past two years, reportedly consulted a doctor over a lump on his neck. As the doctor suggested that the lump on his neck could be cancerous, he was dejected. On Thursday, one of Janakiraman’s friends went to his house and found the door locked from inside. After his repeated knocks did not elicit any response, he peeped in through the window, only to find Janakiraman dead. Police, who later arrived at the spot, recovered the body and handed it over to Janakiraman’s father Arumugam, a carpenter, after a post mortem. Police said they recovered a suicide note in which the victim said that he took the extreme step as he could not bear the pain.
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