Engineering girl commits suicide after classmates harass her, remove her from WhatsApp group

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February 8, 2018

Bengaluru, Feb 8: A teenage engineering student hanged herself from a ceiling fan at her home near Rajarajeshwari Nagar in southwest Bengaluru, on Tuesday afternoon after she was allegedly bullied and harassed by the classmates.

The victim is Meghana C, a first-semester civil engineering student at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Kumaraswamy Layout. She is survived by her banker-parents, Chandrashekar and Lata, and elder sister Bhavana, an engineer.

According to the police, Meghana left for college on Tuesday around 8.30 am and returned home while her parents were still at work. The incident came to light when Meghana's sister returned home from tuitions around 1 pm and found her sister's room locked from the inside. She peeped through the window and found Meghana hanging from a ceiling fan, the police said.

She informed her parents over the phone and with the help of a few neighbours broke open the door of her sister's room and brought Meghana down. But by then Meghana was dead. Meghana's parents said that their daughter was a victim of harassment in college. The harassment started in November last year.

Her classmates harassed her over a missing mobile phone, following which a professor admonished her and even counselled her, they said.

The parents also said that Meghana complained that she was treated as an outcast in the class when she contested the class representative elections. Her classmates stopped talking to her, did not share notes and even removed her from a WhatsApp group used by students to share notes, the parents said. Meghana's parents also said that they had even met her professors airing their daughter's concerns, but nothing changed.

While the Chandrashekars alleged that bullying by four classmates and a faculty member pushed Meghana to take the extreme step, the college said she was irregular to class and had flunked in a couple of subjects in the first semester. Police have booked the four students and faculty member for abetting Meghana's suicide.

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Suresh Kalladka
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

Should debar those young criminals if that proved

Ganesh
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

That criminal students and staffs should thrown out of the college

Mohan
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

She might have some problem. but sad. probe needed reveal all truths

Unknown
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

This news is just family version of the victim. College, classmates version yet to come

Hari
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

Poor girl.. Without proper evidence how that classmates harrassed her..! strange

shaji
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

very sad.  All students need to be respected.  Its unfortunate that she was harassed by her own classmates.  What a shame on these hate mongers?  What did they gain now?  Hope they are satisfied now and thumping their own back for the job well done.   Shit.   Students reasonable for the unnatural death of Meghana should be booked and jailed giving a lesson to other students.   College management is also responsible for this for taking the case easily.    I express my heartfelt condolences to close relatives of Meghana.   May God bless her.   I could not understand why are we losing such youne ones.    We should find some solution.  The only way for this is to respect others and their feelings.  Dont hate any one and dont take anyone for granted.  I ask the students to put themselves in the place of Meghana and think.   You have killed her.   You have taken her life.  God will not spare you unless you repent and beg for God's excuse and first of all ask for forgiveness from Meghana's parents and take oath not to do this with any one else throughout your life.   College Management should give instructions to all the students and make them cautious that anyone found  guilty will be debarred from college.

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March 27,2020

Mangaluru  Mar 27: Thinking that he might have contracted the coronavirus infection, a 55-year-old man has committed suicide in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district.

The deceased has been identified as Sadashiva Shetty, a resident of Abbettu under Meramajalu village. He was working in a petrol bunk.

It is learnt that Sadashiva suspected that he might have come in contact with coronavirus infected people while working in the petrol bunk.

He was scared that the same might get transferred to his family members through him. 

He was depressed for past few days. Today, he hanged himself from the ceiling fan of his house, sources said.

A case has been regarded at the Bantwal rural police station and investigations are on.

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