A 17-year-old girl died by suicide by jumping from a residential building in New Delhi's Jamia Nagar area after she reportedly failed to clear the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), police said on Saturday.
The girl had been preparing for the engineering entrance exam after completing Class 12. She jumped from the seventh floor of a building in Shaheen Bagh on Friday.
A suicide note was found, in which she wrote, "Forgive me, I couldn't do it. I did not clear the JEE exam."
"Yesterday, at 11:25 hrs, a PCR call regarding a girl aged 17, jumping off the roof of the 7th floor of a building in Okhla main market was received at PS Jamia Nagar. She was preparing for JEE after clearing the 12th class. She has left a suicide note citing study pressure and not meeting expectations as a reason, the police said in a statement.
According to the police, the girl had previously informed her mother that she would take her life if she failed the examination. Her father works in the private sector, while her mother is a homemaker.
CCTV footage showing the girl jumping from the roof is being widely circulated on social media. An investigation under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) is underway, officials added.
