Questioned in city drugs case, student leaps to death Cops Arrested 11 Students After Raids In Potheri
Sindhu.Kannan@timesofindia.com 5.9.24
Chennai : A 22-year-old private engineering college student jumped to his death from the fourth floor of an apartment building in Potheri near Maraimalai Nagar on Tuesday night, three days after he was taken with 23 others by police for inquiry over ganja use. On Saturday, 1,000 police personnel from Tambaram commissionerate raided several gated communities in Potheri, occupied mostly by engineering college students, and seized ganja, hookah machines, ganja oil, ganja chocolates and arrested 11 students. Police who identified the deceased as Konda Srinivasa Nikhil of Telangana, a fourth year B Tech (CSC) student, said hookah pipes had been seized from his room.
After he was taken to the Maraimalai Nagar police station for questioning and his parents were informed, officers issued a warning, obtained a written apology and let him off. No case was registered. A preliminary probe revealed that the college management summoned him for an internal inquiry and his parents reprimanded him for getting into bad company.
No suicide note, No suicide note left behind
Some of the house owners in the building had already asked the students to vacate the place, police said. For three days after the raid, Nikhil confined himself to his room and did not attend college. Tuesday night, he jumped from the fourth floor. A few fellow students rushed him to a private hospital in Potheri where he died early on Wednesday morning. Police sent the body for postmortem to Chengalpet Govt Medical College and Hospital and registered a case.
He did not leave any suicide note behind. (Assistance for those having suicidal thoughts is available on TN’s health helpline 104 and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050.)
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