The first year student of information and communication technology says no one should be held responsible for his suicide.
Unable to bear study pressure, Lokesh Rajawat, 20, a DAIICT, Gandhinagar engineering student, committed suicide on Thursday by hanging himself in his boy's hostel room. The police have recovered four different suicide notes and have registered a case of accidental death.
Official sources from the institute have cited the boy's inability to cope with study pressure as the cause for the suicide.
"Before killing himself, he talked to his parents about his first year examination results, and it seems that they were upset with his low score (3.99)," said a source.
A source said that Rajawat, who belongs to Ajmer, was a student of information and communication technology and was studying in second semester in the first year. As he was unable to score good marks in the exams, he was forced to repeat the first year.
Sources added that there was no one at the hostel because of the on-going vacations, when the tragic incident took place. As a result, no one talked to him or consoled him.
A senior student, on condition of anonymity, said, "During the summer vacation, the institute helps students with low grades to take up summer courses and improve their grades. Minimum 4 points are required to continue further studies. The pressure to score four points is believed to be the cause behind his suicide."
Rajawat had written four different suicide notes - for the police, parents and college. He stated in his suicide notes that he was solely responsible for his act, adding that no one should be held responsible for his suicide.
CP Kharadi, investigating officer and police sub-inspector, sector 7 police station, Gandhinagar, said that they were called on Friday night to open the locked door of Rajawat's room.
"When we (team of policemen) and the institute's staff broke open the door lock, we saw the boy had hanged himself with a bed-sheet," said Kharadi.
The police have sent the body for post-mortem and subsequently handed it over to his father Mahendra Rajawat on Saturday morning.
"Mahendra is a general manager at Bank of Punjab, Ajmer, and arrived in the city on Saturday," Kharadi said.
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