Forty days after engineering final year student Sreeja ended her life in NGO Colony of Vanasthalipuram, the police arrested her classmate, Shiva Prasad Reddy, on the charge of abetment to suicide.
Controversy brewed over the death of Sreeja, a student of Annamacharya Engineering College living in Torrur of Hayathangar, after she hanged herself in the house of her classmate Bindu in NGO Colony. Bindu claimed that Sreeja came to her house after making a call to discuss about exams on November 7.
“When she sought drinking water, I went inside. By the time I returned, she hanged herself to the ceiling with her chunni,” she maintained then. However, Sreeja’s family members raised suspicions over Bindu’s version. They represented to the higher-ups and even the Home Minister to order a detailed probe.
During subsequent investigation, police found that Sreeja’s classmate, Shiva Prasad Reddy, arrived first at Bindu’s house and shifted her to a nearby hospital. On learning this, her family members pointed a finger at his possible complicity in her death.
Investigation revealed that Reddy was close to Bindu in first year of the engineering course. The next year, he developed differences with her and started befriending Sreeja. “It seems, of late, he started friendship again with Bindu. This had hurt Sreeja,” the Vansthalipuram Inspector Y. Venkat Reddy said.
When Sreeja came to the house of Bindu on November 7, Reddy was already there. While the three classmates discussed their relationships, Sreeja reportedly became furious and threatened to kill herself. Dejected over Reddy ignoring her and moving more closely with Bindu, Sreeja hanged herself, the Inspector said.
