IPUR: A day after JEE (Mains) results were announced, a 17-year-old IIT aspirant from Ghaziabad ended her life by jumping from the fifth floor of her apartment building in Kota on Thursday. In her suicide note, Kriti Tiwari said she was taking the extreme step as she wasn’t satisfied with the results.
Kriti’s death takes the total number of stress-related suicides this year by coaching students in the educational hub to five.
“Kriti has implied in the note that she didn’t want to pursue engineering, but Bachelor of Science (BSc). She wanted to become an astrophysicist. It’s strange because one can also become an astrophysicist after graduating from an IIT,” said SHO of Jawahar Nagar police station Harshit Bharati, who is investigating the case. In her suicide note, written in English, Kriti apologized to her parents.
The SHO said Kriti’s father, Anshuman, had gone to the gym around 8.30am when he received a call from his wife. “Some neighbours had called her up, saying a girl had jumped from the fifth floor of the apartment building and she should check if it was Kriti. On receiving the call from his wife, Anshuman rushed to the spot and identified the girl as his daughter,” the SHO said.
Neighbours told the police that the girl used to keep to herself. “The neighbours told us that she rarely ventured out, except for going to the coaching classes, and was always seen busy with her studies,” Bharati said.