Chennai, May 4 -- Hours before the NEET exams were to begin, an young medical aspirant allegedly committed suicide at her residence at Melmaruvathur in Chengaplattu district out of fear on Sunday.

Police said the young girl, a student of a private school where her mother was working as a teacher, was scheduled to sit for NEET exam at a centre in Tambaram.

However, a couple of hours before the commencement of the exams, she ended her life.

The incident came to light after her mother came to wake her up to ready her for the exams.

She woke up her husband, whose physical movement was limited due to an injury he had suffered in an accident, and alerted the police, who rushed her to a hospital where she was declared brought dead.

Though n...