Hyderabad, November 06: B Anusha, the Degree Final Year student who jumped to her death from the fourth floor of the Villa Marie College on Thursday, was hoping that all would be well after a 10-day break.
She thought that her friends’ taunts would end, at least after she met with an accident. But this did not happen. “My daughter started to attend classes from November 2 after taking a break of 10 days following a minor accident. The taunting, which was going on for the past two months, did not stop even after Anusha started going to college once again,” the girl’s mother, Radha Bai said.
According to her, Anusha was a happy-go-lucky girl who would shrug off minor issues and concentrate on her studies. “She was an active and daring girl,” Radha Bai said, still unable to digest the fact her brave daughter could actually commit suicide.
“I still can’t believe that Anusha took such a step. It proves that those four girls must have really tormented my child,” she said.
Anusha’s elder sister, Pratyusha, an engineering Final Year student of Institute of Aeronautical Engineering at Dundigal, claimed that no one in the class room stopped Anusha when she left the place in tears.
“Anusha told her classmates that she was going to die but no one even made an attempt to stop her,” she alleged.
Academician and Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Chukka Ramaiah, who visited the family at the Gandhi Hospital, said that every college should recruit counsellors for students to come up with their grievances. “The lack of such a provision has led to this kind of situation,” he said.
Despite admitting that Anusha was an active student who also participated in all cultural programmes, college authorities said Anusha might have been suffering from a psychological disorder. “She was active, no doubt. But at the same time, she would suddenly change into a silent girl,” English Department HoD Reema Deewan said.
–Agencies