Another residential college student commits suicide

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR, FEB. 22. In yet another case of suicide, a student of Sai Residential College, Tenali, A. Anvesh Reddy, was found hanging in the college on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.

According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr. Gokul Singh, Anvesh Reddy, a resident of Kollipara, was put in the residential college for intermediate course last year. However, he failed in the first year annual examination and was continuing his studies.

He went out of the college on Wednesday evening as it was a holiday. Later, he returned to the hostel around 7.30 pm. Then he went to the study hall on the first floor where two other students - Suresh and Jan Saida - were also studying. They studied upto 11 o'clock. Though the other two boys went to their hostel rooms, Anvesh Reddy stayed back.

Later, another student, Rajasekhar, who went to the first floor to drink water, found Anvesh Reddy hanging from the iron beam. The boy had hanged himself with a plastic rope. Soon, the students informed the college Director, Mr. Ramamohan Rao, who shifted Reddy to hospital. However, Reddy was declared dead by then. Immediately, the college authorities lodged a complaint with the I-town police station.

The boy's father, Mr. Koti Reddy, who is a senior assistant in the office of the Mandal Revenue Officer at Ponnur, came along with his wife to Tenali on Thursday. He informed the police that the boy was not able to cope with the English medium study as he completed the SSC course in Telugu medium. The boy had called up his father on Wednesday evening and expressed his inability to continue his studies in the hostel as he was unable to cope with the curriculum. However, his father persuaded him to continue.

Interestingly, the boy's mother told the police that she had asked the boy to come back home if he was finding the studies difficult.

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