Unable to secure leads about ragging during their probe on Tuesday, the Cyberabad police are searching for the missing mobile phone of Sainath, who committed suicide in Warangal the previous night.
A first year student of CMR Engineering College at Medchal on the city outskirts, the 19-year-old was residing in the hostel at the college’s Technical Campus. He was allotted a room along with him six other first-year students of the same branch.
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The Medchal Inspector, K. Shashank Reddy, and Petbasheerabad ACP S. Ashok Kumar visited the college and the hostel and inquired with the students and college teachers. “Sainath used to be jolly and didn’t show any signs of depression. There were no ragging incidents either at college or in hostel,” the ACP quoted Sainath’s roommates as saying.
Investigators inquired with the college principal and head of the department if they received any complaints about ragging from Sainath or others students. They categorically refuted reports of ragging at the college and hostel. The college authorities told the police that they minimised chances of seniors ragging the juniors by staggering timings of their classes. “They claim that each floor on the hostel was assigned to a supervisor and contact numbers of principal and ragging committee were given to first year students,” the ACP said.
On Monday afternoon, Sainath returned to the hostel for lunch after attending classes. He told his roommates that he didn’t want to attend post-lunch classes due to headache and was planning to go to Secunderabad. “We asked him to hand over the room key to the adjacent room occupants before leaving,” his roommates reportedly told the investigators.
As Sainath didn’t return to hostel even in the night, a roommate rang up his mobile phone, but it was switched off by then. The Warangal railway police, who examined the spot where Sainath’s body was found, didn’t find his mobile phone in the vicinity.
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