The girl, Tanvi Dhamija (17), a commerce student at DAV Darbari Lal School in Pitampura, was reportedly depressed over her poor performance in the final exams.

Police said her school authorities called her parents—Sitaram Dhamija and Sonia—at 8.15 this morning to discuss about her final results, scheduled to be announced on March 7.

Hearing her parents talking to a school official, Tanvi got scared, went to her father’s room and took out his .32 bore licensed revolver from the locker.

Sitaram Dhamija reportedly kept his revolver loaded always. It was around 8.30 am, when Tanvi took the revolver to her room and shot herself.

Hearing the gun-shot, her whole family was alarmed and rushed to her room to find her in a pool of blood. Tanvi shot herself on the temple and by the time she was taken to a nearby hospital, she was dead, sources said.

The police was informed and her body taken to Babu Jagjeevan Ram Hospital for post mortem. Tanvi did not leave any suicide note.

The body was handed over to her family after postmortem and cremated in Punjabi Bagh in the evening. “The girl, as we have come to know, was depressed over her exams,” said Sanjay Singh, Additional DCP northwest district.

Dhamija’s stayed on the groundfloor of 31, Shakti Vihar Kothi in Saraswati Vihar. The family hails from Bhuna village in Fatehabad district, Haryana.

Her father, Sitaram Dhamija, is a landlord and owns a lot of fields in Haryana, sources said. Tanvi’s elder brother Ashish runs a mobile accessory shop in Karol Bagh.

‘She was a happy-go-lucky girl’
Tanvi never bothered about her poor or good results in exams, say those who knew her. “She was good in studies. We never saw her concerned even if she committed a mistake in her exam,” said Aanchal, her friend and classmate.