Ragging drives engg student to suicide

Hyderabad: An engineering student of a college in Chennai committed suicide due to ragging by seniors, police said. Krishna Chaitanya on Thursday night hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his house in Kukatpally, the police said.

The 19-year-old's parents grew suspicious and broke the door of his room when he did not come out for a long time.

Chaitanya was a second year student of Sathyabama Engineering College in Chennai. He came home for Diwali vacation. In the suicide note recovered by the police,

he said that ragging by his seniors forced him to take the extreme step. Chaitanya said some students of third year were harassing him.