Three incidents of suicide by students — one each in Guntur, Kakinada and Anantapur — had been reported on Tuesday. The police are ascertaining the exact reasons for the three incidents but they come amid a rash of such suicides in the State. The government had only last week cautioned educational institutions not to subject students to undue stress.
Police said Bommareddy Aneela Lessera, a 20-year-old undergraduate of the Guntur Medical College committed suicide at Tenali by jumping off from a water tank at the Chandrababu Naidu Colony. She died on the spot. She was a native of Kakinada and her mother, Prabhavati, is a gynaecologist there.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the victim had been in depression for the last year and had taken leave for four months from the college. She came back to classes only recently.
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Principal of the GMC Subba Rao said the student had been suffering from depression and had even taken treatment. She did not attend classes on Tuesday morning. In the evening, police were alerted about the incident.
Suspicious circumstances
In the second incident, an engineering student died under suspicious circumstances at his residence at Velamala Turangi in Kakinada. He was identified as Bonu Lalith Pratyush, a second year student of the CSC branch in the Aditya Engineering College, Surampalem. Family members spotted his body hanging from the ceiling fan in his study room in the morning.
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Several theories
Meanwhile, a girl student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in the hostel of Sri Sai College in Sarada Nagar in Anantapur, bringing to the fore several theories which led to the death.
P.O. Yamuna (17) of Kothacheruvu mandal headquarters village of the district joined the college as a first year degree student and stayed in the college hostel. According to the police, she was found hanging to the ceiling fan in her dormitory by her friends, who informed the college authorities who called in the police.