Telangana: Short stature, feminine voice drove an engineering student to death

Hyderabad: Short stature, a lean physique and a feminine voice forced an engineering student to end his life in Yadadri district. Guguloth Gopichand, 19, hailing from Khammam district, was found hanging in the college hostel on Sunday night. Gopichand was five feet tall. Gopichand joined ECE at the Tudi Ramreddy College in Gudur village, and was staying at its hostel. On Sunday midnight his roommates found the room locked from inside and despite knocking Gopichand did not respond. When they peeped through the ventilator they found him hanging on the ceiling.

Police found a two-page suicide note in Telugu in which he stated that nobody liked him. “Nobody is responsible for my death. I cannot mix with others. So nobody has a hand in my death. I am dying due to my own problems,” the note said. Police found that Gopichand was depressed as he was short, lean and had a feminine voice. “Prima facie we found that he was depressed with his appearance and voice. He attempted suicide in December 2016 but survived,” Bibinagar sub inspector D. Suresh Kumar said.

In the suicide note he said that he had been in love with a girl, but she wanted a good looking, educated guy. “My academic performance is poor. So she rejected me,” he said in the note. Police found from his college friends that he had been a loner who never mixed with his classmates. Based on his father Narsu's complaint, a suspicious death case was registered and the body was handed over to the family after post-mortem.