India, June 1 -- A bachelor of engineering (BE) first-year student of a government college in Indore died by suicide on Thursday afternoon for being mocked as a Hindi medium student, police said.

According to the police, they also recovered a note.

The female student left a note which said that she failed five papers of the first semester as she couldn't understand English and was mocked for being a Hindi medium student, said Kamlesh Sharma, town inspector, Tukoganj police station.

"I studied in Hindi medium till class 12th. My maternal uncle asked the family to enrol me in a Hindi medium college for higher education, but my father got me admitted to a bachelor of engineering at a reputed college. I could not understand English, and fo...