School management denies hall ticket: SSLC student commits suicide

Bengaluru, Feb 12: A desperate 10th standard student of a school committed suicide after the school management denied hall ticket citing shortage of attendance, in Byappanahalli police station limits here on Monday. The student has been identified as Janardhan (15) of Yellamma Temple Street at Nagavarapalya. As he has shortage of attendance to sit for SSLC board examinations, the teachers denied him the hall ticket and informed his mother Sridevi and convinced her and sent them home. But desperate over this, Janardhan, who told his mother that he would go for tuition, consumed insecticide and started vomiting. Though he was admitted to the Bowring Hospital, he died on Monday. Byappanahalli police who registered a case, are investigating the case. Source: Vartha Bharathi