An 18-year-old boy in Gujarat’s Navsari district died of a heart attack half an hour before his Class 12 examination—the second student death reported since the board exams began on Monday.
According to sources, Utsav Shah, a commerce student at Vidhyakunj School in Navsari, complained of chest pain while preparing to leave for the exam centre and was taken to hospital by his father Narendra Shah. He had prepared for the statistics paper the whole night before, they added.
“We went to the hospital and talked to the doctors and found that he had a heart attack. The postmortem on his body was done at the civil hospital in Navsari and his viscera was taken for further analysis to find out the exact cause of death. We suspect that he was tense because of the examination. We were told there was no pressure from his family over his studies,” said District Collector Amit Prakash Yadav.
The doctors declared him dead in the evening.
A close relative of Utsav said his parents had decided to donate his eyes.
“Utsav was a good student and healthy. He has two sisters and was the only son of his parents. When he had chest pain and uneasiness, his father gave him soda. But he did not feel better after drinking it and was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared dead after some time. He had no history of illness but was overweight. The family has decided to donate his eyes,” the relative said.
District Education Officer Raghini Tandel and nagarpalika president Jigisha Shah also visited the hospital and the boy’s parents.