19-year-old NEET aspirant dies by suicide in Maharashtra after falling short of cutoff

2 min readPuneUpdated: Jul 27, 2026 10:54 AM IST A 19-year-old NEET-UG aspirant from Maharashtra's Ahilyanagar district allegedly died by suicide after missing the qualifying cutoff in the entrance examination ( (Source: Pexels/ Representational). A 19-year-old medical aspirant allegedly died by suicide at her home in Maharashtra’s Ahilyanagar district Saturday after falling short of the qualifying cutoff in the NEET-UG examination. Ankita Suresh Sangale, a resident of Jalalpur village in Karjat taluka, left behind a purported suicide note indicating she was under severe distress over her examination results, the police said.A team from the Karjat police station arrived at the scene and sent the body for a post-mortem examination. “The preliminary investigation and the note left by the stu