Hyderabad: A teenage student committed suicide by hanging herself at her house in Meerpet on Sunday. Students of the college protested on Monday demanding action against a woman lecturer who allegedly harassed the girl student.
Her parents, who did not want to lodge a complaint with police, said their daughter had shared her troubles with them a day before.
The girl a third year student at TRR Polytechnic College, was the younger daughter of Yelkaiah, who runs a dry cleaning shop. He said, “My daughter was very upset with the way she was treated by a female faculty at the college. On Saturday, she came home crying and said her project work had not been approved, that she was made to stand for an hour in the lab in front of others.”
Students gathered in huge numbers at the college and raised slogans against the faculty. They alleged that harassment had forced their fellow student to end her life.
Meerpet police learnt about the incident only after students protested at the college.
