Chennai: A final-year B-tech (IT) student jumped to death from his college building at SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) at Kattankulathur near here on Monday morning. He had reportedly left a suicide note saying, “No one is responsible for my death”.
According to the police, the deceased was identified as S.Sri Raghav, 20, who hailed from Thiruverumbur in Kanyakumari. He was staying in a rented apartment with his younger brother, who is a first-year student in the same institution.
At about 10.30 am, Raghav went up to the seventh floor of the Tech Park building in the University and jumped down. Hearing his cries, the security guards and other students rushed to the spot and alerted the authorities. He was taken to the hospital inside the campus but was declared brought dead.
The Maraimalai Nagar police took his body to the Chengalpattu government hospital for post mortem and handed it to the family after autopsy. Police also searched his apartment and recovered a suicide note allegedly written by Raghav, stating, "No one is responsible for my death".
SRMIST anguished over student's suicide.
Expressing anguish over the incident of final year IT student Sree Raghav ending his life on Monday, SRMIST Registrar N Sethuraman stated that as a policy, necessary support and guidance are being consistently offered to the needy students.
In a statement, he noted that Sree Raghav was good in academics and had left a note in his pocket stating that nobody was responsible for his decision.
The psychiatry department of the medical college at SRMIST had made it a practice to offer support and guidance to students facing any problems, Registrar Sethuraman said, adding, "We have a faculty mentoring programme where one faculty takes care of 20 students".
