Three students, including a TV dance reality show star, committed suicide by hanging themselves here in the past 48 hours in three separate incidents, police said.
A seventh standard student, Shushant Patil, of Sharadashram School at Dadar in central Mumbai was today found hanging in the school toilet, police said.
Shushant arrived at school at 7 am but was not present in the classroom when the teacher was taking attendance, Senior Inspector Ashok Unde of Dadar police station said.
When checked, he was found hanging in the toilet, he said, adding, "Preliminary probe suggests that he was worried, since he had failed in four subjects in the semester examination. This might have forced him to end his life."
In the second incident, sixth standard student Neha Sawant was found hanging by a dupatta to a ceiling rod inside her Sai Darshan Apartment house, Dombivli, in neighbouring Thane district on Saturday morning, police said.
The dancer, Neha, had participated in three TV dance reality shows, including Boogie Woogie. She was also a student of a dance academy, where she excelled in various forms of dances, they said.
Although the actual reason for the suicide is not yet known, police suspect that the girl might have taken this step after her family took her out of the academy, as they wanted her to concentrate on her studies.
In a similar incident, allegedly depressed for having failed in exams, an 18-year-old medical student ended her life by hanging herself at her residence in suburban Powai, police said.
Bhajanpreet Bhuler, the physiotherapy course student of DY Patil Medical college in Navi Mumbai, was found hanging with a nylon rope to ceiling rod at her Sai Co-operative Housing society on Saturday morning, Ashok Jadhav, senior inspector of Powai police station said.
"She had failed in a few subjects in the semester examination. She seemed upset since then. Her elder brother is in the last year engineering course and her sister is doing a pilot course in New Zealand," he said.
But Bhajanpreet could not meet her family's expectations, he said, adding that this might have forced her to commit suicide.
In all the three cases, police has not found any suicide note.
