No exams again, boy ends life

A student of Dr B.R. Ambedkar University in Agra committed suicide yesterday after the authorities put off the pharmacy examinations for the third year in a row.

Sonvir Singh’s classmates took to the streets after the incident and went on a rampage for over three hours inside the campus today, pelting stones at the Institute of Basic Science and the Vice-Chancellor’s office. The university authorities had to call in the police to bring the students under control.

According to the students, Sonvir, a resident of Saiyyan town of Agra, had shut himself inside his hostel room on Tuesday after he saw that the university has closed for summer vacation till July 4 without announcing the exam dates for the pharmacy course. It was to be held in May.

Fearing that his careerwas doomed, he allegedly took his own life.