A 19-year-old college student drowned in a pond in Chengalpattu district on Sunday evening when he had gone there for a swim with his friends. The victim has been identified as S.K. Mohanram, a student of a private college in Kattankulathur. Chengalpattu taluk police have registered a case and are investigating.
A senior police officer in Chengalpattu district said that Mohanram along with seven of his friends had gone for a swim in a small pond in the Palar river near the Arungundram school powerhouse to celebrate his birthday. However Mohanram, who did not know how to swim, suddenly got caught in the mud of the pond and drowned.
On being alerted, the Chengalpattu taluk police recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem to the Chengalpattu Government Hospital.