PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 24 -- A Class 12 student of Sadhuri Shiromani Inter College, Dhansara, Jetwara, in neighbouring Pratapgarh district, committed suicide on Sunday night by hanging himself from a tree near his house after allegedly failing to secure the admit card for his Class 12 Board exam, for non-payment of fee.

The 18-year-old, upset over not being able to appear in the exam despite having laboured hard all through the year, took the extreme step in dejection.

Hailing from an economically weak background with the deceased's father Rajendra Singh, selling milk in the village, the boy was the eldest of two siblings.

Rajendra Singh in a written complaint to SHO of Jethwara police station said that for the last four days, his son was bei...