Shivamogga, Sept 13: A first-year student from Karnataka, pursuing B Tech course in mechanical engineering at IIT-Guwahati, allegedly committed suicide by hanging on Wednesday.
The police said Nagashree S.C., 18, from Shivamogga, left a note behind saying she wanted to be a teacher, not an engineer.
“Her roommate had gone to attend classes. When she returned she found the room locked. She made phone calls to Nagashree which went unanswered. She then informed the security,” an IIT spokesperson said.
IIT security officials got in touch with the local police who broke open the door of the room and found the first semester student hanging from the ceiling fan. A brief suicide note written in English was found in the room.
“She wrote that it was better to die than fail to live up to the expectations of her parents and family members,” Rana Bhuyan, in-charge of Amingaon police outpost, said.
“She seemed to be depressed that she had to pursue engineering. She also wrote how she could not fulfil the expectations of her parents,” Sanjib Saikia, Additional Superintendent of Police, Kamrup, said. “Engineering sucks,” she wrote in the suicide note, according to Saikia.
“It has been barely one-and-a-half months since she joined the course,” the IIT spokesperson said adding that she had undergone the mandatory counselling session for first-year students recently. “Nothing abnormal was noticed in the interaction,” the spokesperson claimed.
IIT Guwahati has four counsellors for around 6,000 students, according to the spokesperson
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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Really sad incident. she could have called me at least. i would have convinced her parents.
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