Hyderabad, November 06: A student of the Villa Marie College at Somajiguda here jumped to death from the fourth floor of the college building on Thursday allegedly unable to bear the humiliation meted out to her by her friends.
Police registered a case against four students for driving the victim, B Anusha (20) of B.Com final year (foreign trade), to suicide.
According to the college authorities, Anusha attended the 8.30-9.30 am class and went out of the room for water before her computer class. She went to the fourth floor corridor and spoke over her mobile phone for sometime before jumping down.
She was shifted to the nearby Yashoda hospital where she died at 11.20 a.m while undergoing treatment.
“I heard a loud thud and from the first floor, I saw Anusha lying in a pool of blood on the ground. We shifted her to a hospital,” a computer lecturer, Anil Kumar, said.
According to college attender Lakshmi, “Anusha and a few other students moving in the corridor were asked to clear the area as an MCA exam was going on there. Even as the other students went away, Anusha stayed on crying and speaking over the phone, and then, suddenly, she jumped down.” Victim’s mother Radha Bai, a headmistress at ZP high school at Siripuram in Medak, said Anusha spoke to her father Prasanna Kumar, a manager in Sponge Iron at Paloncha, over the phone and told him about the humiliation meted out to her by her friends. “He assured her that he would speak to the college authorities tomorrow. However, she sent an SMS to her father and jumped from the building,” Radha Bai said. “I am going to die, Daddy,” was the SMS sent by Anusha.
“Anusha was being humiliated and harassed for the past two months. She complained to me about the matter last night and I advised her to ignore it and concentrate on her studies,” Radha Bai said. Explaining why Anusha became a target of attack for her friends, Radha Bai said on September 2, Anusha and four of her friends did not return home till 8.30 p.m (the family stays at BHEL). “I called one of them and reprimanded her for staying out till night as the situation in the city was tense following the missing of the late CM Rajasekhara Reddy’s chopper. Since then, the four started nursing a grudge against Anusha,” Radha Bai said.
“Our parents never reprimanded us, how could your mother pull us up?” the girls used to question Anusha and harass her,” Radha Bai said. Police said the girls allegedly humiliated and abused Anusha besides distancing her from her other friends.
Reena Deewan, head of the English Department, said they were not aware of the taunts and Anusha’s parents too did not complain about it during the parents-teacher meeting on October 31.
–Agencies