210 students in Udupi skip SSLC examination on first day; officials say nothing to do with Hijab row
Udupi: As many as 210 students in the Udupi district were reported absent on the first day of the SSLC examination which commenced on Monday. The examinations were held at 58 centres in the Udupi district.
According to the official data, 117 students at regular centres and 93 at private centres remained absent during the exam on Monday.
A senior government official confirmed to the reporters that despite confusion pertaining to the Hijab issue and the government orders regarding the rules and regulations, the students were unable to appear for the exam due to personal reasons and not due to the Hijab controversy.
He further added that a majority of the students who did not appear for the exams on Monday were those who had returned home to other parts of the state owing to the COVID Pandemic. “As we were not considering the attendance of the students this year, we did not leave out their name from the list,” he said.
In the 5 zones of the district, he said, “Including 13,666 fresher and 9 repeaters a total of 13675 students have registered for the exam, out of which 13550 fresher and 8 repeaters appeared for today’s exam. Thus, 117 candidates were absent including 116 fresher and a repeater.”
Reports said that no candidate wrote their exam from the COVID Care Centre today. However, in the special rooms arranged for the affected persons in respective examination centres, about 12 candidates were reported to have written their exams considering safety.
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Mere breakup not enough for abetment to suicide: Delhi HC
New Delhi (PTI): Merely breaking up may not amount to instigation for a case of abetment of suicide under the criminal law, the Delhi High Court has said.
Justice Manoj Jain made the observation while dealing with a bail plea by a man accused of abetting the suicide of his former partner, who hanged herself five days after his marriage to another woman.
Granting bail to the accused, the court observed that the instigation should be of such a nature that leaves the deceased with no option but to commit suicide.
It said only a trial would establish whether the deceased's "extreme step" was on account of provocation, instigation, "merely on account of her being hyper-sensitive girl" or for some other reason.
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In the present case, the court noted, there was no dying declaration, and the parties were in a relationship for around eight years, during which there was no complaint from the deceased.
The court observed there was a considerable time gap between the date when the parties stopped talking and the date of the suicide.
"Apparently, it seems to be a case of a broken relationship and quite possibly, the deceased, having come to know that the applicant has got married to someone else, has chosen to finish herself," the court said in the order passed on February 24.
"Though broken relationship and heartbreaks have become common these days, mere breaking-up of relationship may not per se constitute instigation so as to make it to be a case of abetment under Section 108 BNS (abetment of suicide)," the court order read.
According to the father of the deceased, his daughter had been trapped by the accused, who pressured her to convert to his religion for marriage, and it was under such pressure that his daughter committed suicide by hanging herself with a chunni in October 2025.
The accused was arrested in November 2025.
The court observed that, according to the woman's friends, she was upset, and they never claimed anything on conversion. The accused had stopped talking to her from February 2025 onwards, it said.
According to the order, the man was let out on bail on a personal bond and surety bond of Rs 25,000 each.
The accused submitted that the parties were in a cordial relationship for around eight years, but the woman's parents were against the relationship since they belonged to different religions.
He alleged that it was her parents who forced her to sever the relationship.
