One NEET activist commits suicide in TN

Neet candidate for the NEET, Soundharya T was found dead at his home in Katpadi in Vellore district in TN on Wednesday. He wrote to NEET on Sunday and told his friends he had not done well in the exams

Johannesburg - National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) candidate Soundharya T was found dead in his home in Katpadi in Vellore district in Tamil Nadu district on Wednesday. He had written to NEET on Sunday and told his friends he had not done well in the test.

Police suspect he took his life as he did poorly in the NEET test. However, a suicide note has not yet been found.

Soundharya's death is the third suicide in the state due to pressure from the NEET exam after 19-year-old student Danhanush was allegedly found hanging from his seat on Sunday morning, just hours before the test.

On Monday evening Kanimozhi, the daughter of a couple who is a lawyer in the Ariyalur region, Tamil Nadu, had taken her own life after fearing that she did not fare well at NEET.

Soundharya, a top local government student in grades 10 and 12, was an outstanding student, according to her teachers and friends. However, he told his classmates that the NEET exam he wrote on Sunday was difficult and expected him not to cancel the test.

Police said his parents, S Tirunavakkarasu and T.Rukmani, with whom he was living, were paid daily. They had left their home in Kathalapattu village near Katpadi in Vellore on Wednesday morning.

Soundharya was alone at home after his parents left and when neighbors called him at 10.30am he did not answer so they called the police and his parents. Police arrived and opened the door of the house and found his body inside. Police have registered a case of unnatural death under Section 174.

The DMK government has been urging that the NEET exam be abolished in the province and pointed out that students from poor backgrounds have not been able to complete the exam.

The Prime Minister MK. Stalin while delivering a decision to the Tamil Nadu Council against the NEET exam said students living in the villages could not complete the exams as they did not receive proper training and the state did not want that.

The anti-NEET bill has been passed unanimously in the House where BJP legislatures want to leave.