VIJAYAWADA: Despite parents, fellow batchmates and student union bodies alleging that P Eeswar Reddy committed suicide due to the unruly behavior of the college management, police filed a case under section 174 of CrPC - which indicates unnatural death. However, the investigation carried out by Gannavaram police triggered doubts when they excluded the names of those responsible- vice principal Rajesh and college principal Bose Babu.
The 16-year-old Inter first year student of Narayana Junior College committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room at its residential campus in Gudavalli village, Gannavaram mandal, on Sunday evening. The student was from Manchikarli village in Guntur district. Reddy was allegedly manhandled by his physics teacher after he failed to complete a task assigned to him. His parents and students held the faculty responsible for his death.
“If a person commits suicide, the one who abets the commission of such a suicide is held responsible and section 306 of IPC (Abetment of suicide) is booked against the accused. But here the police filed IPC 174 and therefore, no action can be initiated against the college management. This is nothing but manipulating the police. Not only in this case, no action was taken against the college management even in the previous suicide cases,” said a senior police official, on condition of anonymity. The college in Gudavalli village where the student hanged himself belongs to Narayana Group of Colleges, which has had similar incidents in the past where a few students committed suicide allegedly owing to the management’s pressure for marks and ranks.
According to data available with the Regional Intermediate office, as many as 40 students studying in various private intermediate colleges committed suicide between 2006 and 2017 in Krishna district alone.
Infact, 35 of the total cases were from Narayana and Sri Chaitanya residential colleges.