Father of deceased 17-year-old J&K boy Adnan Hilal Gilkar calls this a clear case of murder
Shock, anger and disbelief has descended upon Jammu and Kashmir after a 17-year-old engineering student, who committed suicide after being marked failed in an examination, was declared successful after re-evaluation, four months after his death.
Adnan Hilal Gilkar, who was pursuing a diploma in electrical engineering at Government Polytechnic College, Srinagar, committed suicide on June 18, the day he was declared 'failed' in his physics paper by the J&K state board of technical education.
Adnan had jumped into the River Jhelum on June 18 after checking his result on the internet, which declared that he had failed his Physics paper. Seemingly depressed, he climbed atop Abdullah Bridge and jumped into the river. Four days later, his body was fished out from Jhelum in the old Srinagar city.
After the re-evaluation process, Adnan has secured around 70 per cent aggregate marks in the first semester of the course. In the subject, in which he was previously failed, he has secured 48 marks contrary to the earlier 28, for which he committed suicide.
"It is a clear case of murder. We are completely shattered. My son has always been a bright student all through. He got a distinction in matriculation. He was one of the first 100 students to crack the entrance test for the engineering course. Now, after his death they say he had actually passed the exam and not failed as declared by them earlier," Hilal Ahmad Gilkar, Adnan's father, told dna.
Gilkar, a guest faculty at Institute of Management and Public Administration (IMPA), said that he had applied for re-evaluation of his Physics paper since Adnan had told him that he had answered all the questions with ease.
"After Adnan wrote the paper he told me that he had insisted on a continuation sheet because he needed to write more. He was given a second answer script to write his answers. I went for the re-evaluation and came to know that he had actually got 48 marks and not 28. Insensitivity and callous attitude of the evaluators has cost me my son," lamented Gilkar.
Gilkar has decided not to back down and take legal action against the authorities for callousness. "I will fight for justice. I will highlight this issue and take legal action against the authorities because their follies have claimed an innocent student's life," he said.
Facing flak, the J&K State Board of Technical Education tried to deflect blame, saying that they just compiled the results. "Our re-evaluation is a fair system of marking. A student having doubt can come and see his answer paper. We get it evaluated from two experts. Some students pass and some fail in the re-evaluation process," said Nazir Hussain Malik, secretary of the board.
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