CHENNAI: A student preparing for NEET exam in Tamil Nadu committed suicide after scolded by her father. The dead has been identified as Indu of Villupuram. She was 19. She was upset after her father shouted at her for giving a wrong OTP as he was applying for Other Backward Class (OBC) certificate.

The father called his daughter and asked her for the OTP after reaching the nearest government center. She told him the wrong OTP twice. He somehow managed to apply for the certificate. He came home and scolded her again. However, initial information was that she took her life due to fear of getting less marks in the exam. The police refuted the claim.

She completed her higher secondary education from a government school in the village. She was a student of a private NEET coaching institute in Puducherry. She scored 350 marks but could not clear it.