Hyderabad, May 11: An Intermediate second year student of Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Aushapur, committed suicide by hanging himself in the college bathroom on Sunday afternoon.
Ch Santosh Kumar, 17, of Korutla in Karimnagar district, was pursuing Intermediate II year (MPC stream) at Sri Chaitanya residential junior college in Aushapur village of Ghatkesar police limits.
After finishing classes at 12.30 pm, Santosh walked into a bathroom in the college premises and hanged himself with a plastic wire.
“Standing on a bucket, Santosh hanged himself with a stray wire from a water pipe in the bathroom,” Ghatkesar SI Anjaiah said.
The suicide came to light when one of Santosh’s friends started worrying after he did not open the bathroom door for a long time. He scaled the wall and through the ventilator saw him hanging from the pipeline. “With the help of other students, the college staff broke opened the bathroom door and rushed Santosh to Gandhi hospital. But he was declared brought dead,” the police officer said.
According to police, Santosh pursued Intermediate Ist year from Chaitanya college in Dilsukhnagar, but was shifted to Aushapur campus recently. According to college authorities, Santosh was shifted to train him for advanced supplementary as he failed in one subject in the Intermediate Public Examination (IPE), 2009. “He had failed in physics and had applied for advanced supplementary that is scheduled to be held on May 20. The coaching for this was provided at Aushapur campus and hence he was shifted there temporarily,” said dean V Narendra Babu, Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Dilsukhnagar zone.
Babu further added that the boy was very depressed about his failure in one subject as he had performed well in all the other subjects. According to the college authorities, the student had scored 80 per cent marks in all other papers in IPE and also in internal examinations of the school.
Police confirmed that there was no pressure on the boy, but he was unhappy over being shifted to the Aushapur campus.
“Neither teachers nor his friends said anything rude to Santosh. In the last four days since the classes began, Santosh told his roommates several times that he was not happy to repeat IPE again and was unhappy about being shifted to the new campus. We suspect that he might have committed suicide due to that. However, we have to talk to his parents before coming to any conclusion,” Anjaiah said.
A case was registered under section 174 (suspicious death) of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
—-Agencies