2nd year Madurai Medical College student commits suicide after failing exam
Virudhunagar: After failing twice in a subject in the first-year semester examination, a second-year medical student studying at Madurai Medical College allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling at her house in Virudhunagar.
It is believed that the student from the 2022 batch took the drastic step after she failed to pass in the Physiology subject. Previously, she had failed in the subject in the first-year semester which led her to retake the exam. However, when the results of her first-year semester exams were released, she found that she had not passed again, resulting in frustration.
No suicide note was recovered by the police and the exact reason for the student to end her life is yet to be determined.
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The incident took place on Tuesday when she informed her parents that she was about to take a bathe and then went to her room. However, her friend who tried to reach her for a long time found her phone switched off. Worried, her friend contacted her parents and asked her to check up on her.
When her parents went to her room, they found the door locked from inside. Following this, they broke open the door and found her hanging in the room. She was immediately rushed to the Government Medical College Hospital in Virudhunagar but the doctors declared her brought dead.
As per TNIE news report, the student was staying at home with her parents during her semester holidays. Her mother is an office superintendent at the Virudhunagar Government Medical College Hospital, and her father is an accountant at a private hospital.
Later the police were informed who registered a case under 194 BNSS and sent her body for postmortem to the Virudhunagar govt medical college hospital. After the postmortem, the police handed over the body to her parents
Speaking to the daily, a police source said "No suicide note was recovered. We have conducted a thorough search of her house."
