Class X students jump off 8th floor in Hyderabad, exam pressure suspected

While the exact reason for suicide is not known, police suspect pressure of performing well in the examination. The deceased were identified as Kale Sravani and Bhargavi Patel, both students of Akshara International School, Byramalguda. 

The teenage girls were preparing for their Class 10 CBSE examinations. According to the L B Nagar police, Sravani, daughter of Kale Nagendra, a scientist with Research Centre Imarat (RCI), left her house at Manjeera Hills in Chitra layout in Saroornagar, to the residence of Bhargavi, daughter of Santhi Kumar Patel who is into construction business, in the eighth floor of TNR



Vaishavi Sikhara apartments, in the evening on the pretext of pursuing combined studies. " At around 6.30 pm, both the girls suddenly jumped off from the balcony of the flat one after the other and died on the spot," L B Nagar sub-inspector Vemulakonda Madhu said. 

The police recovered a slip in the waste paper basket in their room, in which Sravani had scribbled a few words saying: "Dear Ma, Paa.. Sorry," and "I miss you Teju." (Her elder brother). "There was no suicide letter written by Bhargavi," the SI said. The bodies were shifted to Osmania General Hospital for post-mortem. "As per the initial investigation, it is a case of suicide, as we found the suicide note. However, we have registered a case of 174 CrPC (suspicious death) and took up the investigation," Madhu said.