Upset over bad CBSE results, 2 students commit suicide
New Delhi, May 30: Upset over not scoring good results in class 10th board exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), two students allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves on Tuesday.
Police said, one of the deceased identified as Rohit Kumar Meena (17) was a student of Dwarka's M.R. Vivekananda Model School.
Meena scored 59 per cent in the board exam, he was a resident of Kakrola area and committed suicide in his room. He was rushed to a local hospital where she was declared brought dead.
According to police, they got a call around 3.45 p.m. regarding the incident, no suicide note was recovered but police suspect he was upset over the results.
In the second incident, a student, Pragya Pandey, 15, who stayed in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, was found hanging with a ceiling fan at her residence.
"She was a student in Ryan School, she got 70 per cent marks. She wanted to pursue science and could not get due to low percentage," said a senior police officer.
Due to the same, she committed committed suicide by hanging herself with a ceiling fan, he said.
Her father works as enforcement officer in ED, he added.
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Businessman burnt to death as moving car catches fire in Noida
Noida (PTI): A 46-year-old businessman was burnt to death after his moving car caught fire in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district, police said on Tuesday.
According to police, the victim was identified as Rajkumar Singhal, who was engaged in the paint business. The incident occurred late on Monday night near Sorkha village under the Sector 113 police station area.
Station House Officer Krishna Gopal Sharma said Singhal was driving towards Parthala Chowk when his vehicle suddenly caught fire for reasons yet to be ascertained.
Singhal was unable to get out of the car and died in the blaze, the SHO said.
Fire tenders reached the spot after receiving information, but the car had already been gutted, police said. The body has been sent for post-mortem examination and an investigation is underway.
Police suspect the presence of paint or other inflammable material in the car may have caused the fire to spread rapidly.
