Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, May 26: Eight PU students from across the state ended their lives, having been frustrated by their failed expectations. While six among them committed suicide for having failed the examination, two girls took away lives because they had got marks which were below their expectations.

Rajappa (18), student of Kaveri College, Gonikoppal in Kodagu district, checked his result in internet in the morning and found that he had failed in economics. When he returned home, his parents were away visiting hospital on account of ill health. He used a veil of his mother to hang himself from a ceiling fan at home. His parents realized what had happened after they returned home. Pavitra (18) from Chamarajanagara, Sindhu (18) from Hebbal Mysuru, Vandana (17) from Kodiyala village in Srirangapatna taluk, Mahalaxmi (17) from Arhal village in Gangavati taluk, Komala Rajashekhar Nandaragi (18) from Kalauragi, Veda Naragudi (19) from Belagavi, Tanujashree S T from Bhadravati, and Darshini (18) from Veerabommanahalli in Tumakuru district were the ones who ended their lives.

Many of them chose to hang themselves, while a few set themselves on fire, a couple of them consumed poison, while a few also jumped into rivers.