Hyderabad: Bachupally student suicides caused deep distress on Monday evening after two intermediate students died in separate incidents within the Bachupally Police Station limits. The cases involved students from different junior colleges in the area.
Police said Varsha, a 16-year-old from Makthal in Mahabubnagar district, was studying first year at Sri Chaitanya Residential Junior College, Vaishnavi Campus. Around 5 p.m., she returned to her room during a short break. She locked the door from inside and died by suicide using a chunni. Her friends and staff grew worried when she did not return for a long time. They reached her room and found the door locked. She did not respond despite repeated attempts to contact her.
They broke down the door and found her hanging from a ceiling fan. The staff rushed her to a hospital, yet doctors declared that she had died earlier. The incident shocked students on the campus and left the faculty shaken.
Bachupally student suicides highlight two separate hostel tragedies
In another case, Manjunath, an 18-year-old from NTR Nagar Colony in Nizampet, was a second-year student at Pragathi Junior College in Pragathi Nagar. He had reportedly been in a relationship with a girl from the same college. According to initial information, the girl’s mother and another woman visited the boy’s house and issued a warning over the relationship.
On Monday evening, while his family members were away, Manjunath died by suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan. His death added to the grief in the locality, as both cases involved young students from nearby institutions.
Residents said the twin incidents cast a pall of gloom over the area. Police stated that the complete reasons behind both suicides were yet to be established. Bachupally police registered separate cases and began an investigation into each incident.