Hit by failure, engineering student commits suicide

The re-evaluation results came out yesterday evening in which he cleared two of the three papers. He had four backlogs due to which he lost a year.

At around 8.30 pm he walked to the balcony of his seventh floor apartment on BT Kawade Road and jumped. Gupta8217;s roommates were studying in another room at the time. The music in his room was playing loudly due to which they did not hear any sound. The watchman reported it to P Jangira, the secretary of the building, who informed police. One of his friends, Vipul Kumar, said, 8220;Ankush learnt in the afternoon that his re-evaluation results had come. He went to the college and learnt he had lost a year. He came home and went to his room. Sometime later, he jumped down.8221;

Ankush hails from Balia in UP. He had been studying in the city for the last one-and-a-half year. His friends said he was an average student. His uncle who stays in the city arrived after hearing the news. Ankush was living in Silver Dale Society with four other friends.

His family will be arriving in the city on Sunday.