Telangana Girl, Who Killed Self For Failing, Clears in Re-checking

The family will file a case against Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) for lying and negligence

Students appear for class 12th Board exams in a school. Image used for representational purposes.

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The family of 17-year-old Anamika Arutla, who killed herself after she failed her Telugu paper in the intermediate examinations, discovered that she had passed the paper following reevaluation, the results of which were announced on 28 May.

Anamika had earlier scored 20 marks in the paper, and after reevaluation, her score stands at 48. The family is now reportedly going to file a case against the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) for lying and negligence.

Speaking to The News Minute, Anamika’s sister Udaya A said, “I am going now to the Gandhi Nagar Police station to file a case against the TSBIE. This is completely their fault. This is not a case of one or two marks, the difference is between 20 and 48 marks, how could they forget to calculate 28 marks?"

According to the website, Anamika was an NSS cadet and was scheduled to go to Delhi for training.

Meanwhile, TSBE authorities had said that they found no change in the result status of the 23 students, who ended their lives, but 1,137 other students cleared the exams after their marks were revised following re-verification of their answer scripts.

The spate of suicides by students over failure in the exams kicked up a storm with opposition parties and student bodies taking to the streets demanding justice for the students.

After the matter reached the high court, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on 24 April announced free re-evaluation of answer sheets of all failed students.