Congress worker dies in police action against party’s protest march in Guwahati
The demonstration that was part of the nationwide “Raj Bhavan Chalo” campaign turned violent when police fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.
In a tragic incident, a 17-year-old girl preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) allegedly jumped and died from the roof of a seven-story building in Okhla main market area of South East Delhi, citing immense exam pressure in her suicide note. According to the police, a PCR call was received on late Friday night at police station Jamia Nagar that a girl had jumped from a building in the locality.
In a suicide note left behind, she mentioned the burden of study pressure and her inability to meet expectations as the reasons behind her decision, said a police official.
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The girl, who had recently cleared her Class 12 examinations, was facing immense academic pressure while preparing for the highly competitive engineering entrance test, he added.. A case under Section 174 of the BNS has been registered and investigation is underway. Earlier on October 23, a 21-year old IIT Delhi student was found hanging to a ceiling fan in his hostel room.
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