Anantapur: Tension at polytechnic as student commits suicide

Anantapur: Tension prevailed here after a polytechnic student of a private college was found dead on the railway track on Thursday. S. Arunkumar, 18, allegedly committed suicide after an instructor upbraided some students for turning up drunk in the class.

Arunkumar, a resident of Saradanagar, was doing his second year polytechnic diploma course in EEE branch at Intel Polytechnic College on the city outskirts.

Sources said three students had allegedly turned up drunk at school and were quarrelling during which the windowpane of a classroom was broken. The instructor pulled them. When Arunkumar did not return home on Wednesday, his parents lodged a complaint with the police.

His body was found on the railway track at Ramnagar on Thursday morning. Family members accused the college management of being responsible for the suicide.

They alleged college representatives did not respond to the incident. His relatives pelted stones at a college bus in protest. Students unions staged a protest at the government hospital, where his body was taken, demanding action against the college management.

Railway sub inspector Ismail said a case was registered and investigation was going on based on a complaint by the family. Sources said the post mortem report would clarify about alcohol residues in the liver of the student.