19-year-old NEET aspirant from Coimbatore dies by suicide

19-year-old NEET aspirant from Coimbatore dies by suicide

Express News Service |

The girl's parents and relatives broke open the door after getting no response but she was already dead. (Representational Image)

COIMBATORE: A day after Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking postponement of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) scheduled to be held in September, a 19-year-old Coimbatore girl died by suicide on Tuesday allegedly out of fear of writing the paper.

According to the police, the deceased R Subhshri, daughter of an ITI staff from Venkatasamy Road (East) in RS Puram was preparing for the medical entrance test for the past two years.

Though she appeared for the exam in 2019, she could get the minimum cut-off mark to qualify for the medical admission.

Aiming to crack the exam this year, she was preparing hard and got herself enrolled in a private coaching center in the same locality.


At around 11.00 am on Tuesday, she went inside her room and locked herself. As she didn't come out for more than four hours, her parents knocked on the door. Her parents and relatives then broke open the door after getting no response. But to their shock, the girl had was found hanging in her room.

RS Puram police recovered her body and sent it to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for post-mortem. The police registered a case under section 174 (police to enquire and report on suicide) of IPC and are investigating the suicide.

The National Testing Agency is scheduled to conduct NEET (UG) on September 13. 

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking postponement of NEET and JEE, observing that ‘Career of students cannot be put under jeopardy for long.’

Assistance for those having suicidal thoughts is available on Tamil Nadu Health Department's helpline 104 or Sneha's suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050 or the helpline 1800-121-203040 of N Damodaran Centenary Lifeline Number for Suicide Prevention under the name 'Prana'.

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