Tension over student suicide in Selaiyur

Chennai: Following the suicide of a final year engineering student at a private college in Selaiyur after he was caught copying in an examination, college students damaged college property on Thursday night and blocked the road, prompting police to use force to chase them away.

Police said that Atanu Debnath 21, a native of Tripura and a final year student of civil engineering in Bharath University, took his life by hanging from the ceiling of his rented room in Devaraj Nagar in Madambakkam, where he was living with two other students.