Chennai: With four medical aspirants committing suicide in Tamilnadu, the Madras High Court has urged the media to desist from glorifying the suicides of students.
The court also observed that government and political parties should stop giving financial assistance to the victim’s families.
Barely hours before about 1.17 lakh students were all set to take the NEET exams, three incidents of suicides were reported in Tamilnadu in 24 hours due to fear over clearing the exams.
The first death was reported from Madurai when a 19-year-old girl, in her second attempt to crack the NEET, ended her life by hanging after leaving behind a suicide note and an audio message.
The second incident was reported from Dharmapuri, where a student Aditya ended his life, which was followed by another casualty in Namakkal where another aspiring candidate Motilal hanged himself to death late on Saturday evening.
With this, the deaths due to fear over clearing the NEET exams touched four in the last one week, triggering fears that medical aspirants from the State were struggling to cope with the exam norms, after the suicide of Vignesh in Ariyalur on Thursday last.
This triggered call for scrapping the exams at least for Tamil nadu alone gained momentum.