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PATNA: A schoolteacher’s 16-year-old daughter allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her parents’ tenanted accommodation at Anand Nagar in Siwan town on Thursday as she failed to perform according to her expectations in the Science paper of ongoing Class X examinations of the CBSE.

The examinations started on March 5 and will end on April 4. The examination of Science subject was held on March 16.

Police said Ritu Kumar was living with her parents and an elder sister. Her father Santosh Kumar is a teacher in a government school. A student of a private school in the town, the girl used her scarf to hang self from a hook on the ceiling in her balcony.

Quoting a written complaint of her father, Town police station SHO Subodh Kumar said that the girl had told her family members she could not do well in her Science examination despite hard work. “After dinner, the girl was studying in the balcony, while her family members went to sleep. Around 1am, her mother woke up and saw her hanging,” the SHO said.

The police officer said the body was handed over to the family after autopsy. “According to the parents, she was a bright student,” he said.

According to the State Crime Record Bureau , at least 135 students committed suicide in Bihar from 2014 to 2016 due to examination-related stress or failures.

