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Kerala boy scores 91%, ends life31 May, 2007 l 0300 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thomas family in Aluva near Kochi is in a state of shock. It's youngest member, 18-year-old Prince Thomas committed suicide on May 24 — only days after the class XII results were out. The irony is he was the school's topper. Prince's brother Pravin told TOI that the boy, who studied in Boys Higher Secondary School, Aluva, had scored 91%. "About 1.30 in the morning, when my father went to the lavatory, he saw the light in Prince's room on. When despite knocking there was no response, we broke open the door only to find him hanging," Pravin said. The family still doesn't know why the boy took the extreme step.

The only plausible explanation is that Prince may have found it painful to put the family, which was already steeped in a financial crisis, under pressure to fund his further studies.

His father M C Thomas is a vegetable vendor. "Actually we had a successful business till a few years back. But then we suffered some losses and the business collapsed. We had to sell our house and shift to a rented accommodation," said Pravin. "My sister had to sit at home for one year after completing her class XII as we did not have Rs 50,000 to pay for her admission. But finally, we got the money with some help and she is now in a nursing college," said Pravin.