Hyderabad, March 06: Under pressure from his parents to continue in the boarding hostel where he was staying, a student of Narayana Junior College, Kukatpally, ended his life by coming in contact with a high tension wire late on Friday night.
Kukatpally police said that N Vineet Reddy, a native of Nizamabad district, was pursuing his first year intermediate in Narayana College as a boarding student.
Friday around midnight, Vineet Reddy went to the second floor, took a mop with a steel rod and used it to connect with a passing high tension wire outside the balcony. He died instantly.
Police said that during the investigation they came to know that from the last several days, Vineet Reddy had been telling his friends that he did not want to continue as boarder but his parents had insisted that he continue there.
Vineet Reddy’s father Janardhan Reddy, a farmer in Nizamabad district, received the body on Saturday.
—Agencies