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Student's suicide shocks classmates

Staff Reporter

He was a jovial person, recall engineering student's friends

VISAKHAPATNAM: Close friends and classmates were devastated at the reported suicide of K. Durga Prasad, a final year Electrical and Electronics student of Andhra University Engineering College at Block 1 Hostel on Sunday. They recalled him as a jovial friend.

They were at the Internet centre till 9 p.m. on Saturday. He discussed Monday's experiment with friends in the morning and borrowed a record from them.

Coming from a middle class background (his father is a tailor at Rajahmundry), he did exceptionally well. One of his brothers is doing M.Sc. in Central University at Hyderabad and another got a seat in B.Arch this year, according to friends. Durga Prasad stood second in the recent examination in the class. He had been getting the Pratibha scholarship of the State Government.

Selected for job

More importantly, he got selected for a job with the Tata Consultancy Services in a recent campus interview. "He does not have any serious money problems. If even if he had any, they were like those of any other student," says Santosh, a classmate. A friend, Vinod, did not recall any serious problems relating to health or any other issue that Prasad had discussed with them.

Police version

Vinod who knocked the door around noon thought that Prasad had dozed off. But when he went around 1 p.m. again and found no response, he got suspicious. He managed to push the fully drawn curtain aside and saw the body hanging.

"He had removed the ceiling fan and hanged himself from the hook showing a strong intent to kill himself," the Three Town Inspector, Bhima Rao, said.

Teachers recall Durga Prasad as a student who always showed keen interest in academic matters and interacted with them in an effort to learn more. Chief Warden of the hostels V.S.P.K. Prasad said it was first incident of the kind and regretted the lone presence of Durga Prasad in the hostel room. "Final year students have been provided single rooms to enable them concentrate on studies. May be we have to go in for a rethink," he said.

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