A teenager who had come to his uncle’s house in Mumbai last week, hanged himself yesterday. According to the police, he had failed in his Std XI exams and may have taken the drastic step as a result of that.

The deceased, Sunny Harishankar Sharma (19), had come to stay with his maternal uncle (mama), at Hanuman chawl, Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar in MIDC, Andheri. His maternal aunt (maasi) also stays in the same chawl in another room, and owns another smaller room opposite her house.