S.Anitha, the state board student who filed a case in the Supreme Court against National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions, has allegedly committed suicide at her house at Kuzhumur village near Sendurai on Friday.
The 17-year old Dalit girl, who was a daughter of a daily wage labourer, was alone at her house and hanged herself to death, after being dejected over not being able to get an MBBS seat.
She had scored 1,176 out of 1,200 marks in Class XII and had a cut off of 196.75 for medicine. But she scored only 86 marks in the NEET examination. She could not get an MBBS seat as NEET score was the basis for medical counselling this year.
She had impleaded herself as one of the respondents in the apex court, challenging the NEET. “I want to be a doctor and I will be assured of a seat if the admission is based on Plus Two marks,” Anitha had told the media then.
