In two shocking incidents, two Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) students ended their lives on Friday after failing in some papers of the HSC board exams.

Dashrat Bhagwan Shelke, an 18 year-old student of the commerce stream from Ruparel College, committed suicide by taking an overdose of an unidentified medicine on the evening of May 25 after he failed in two subjects in the board exam, the results of which were declared earlier that day. Shelke, a resident of Dharavi, was rushed to Sion hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. His viscera has been sent to the forensic Lab in Kalina, Santacruz, for a post-mortem.