MANGALURU: 19-year-old BTech student found dead in his hostel room Mangaluru, police said on Sunday.
The deceased has been identified as Saurav Kumar Yadav, a student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (NITK) and a native of Bihar.
According to city police commissioner N Shashi Kumar, financial constraints may have forced the youth to take this extreme step.
The commissioner also interacted with the college administration and students.
The police have also recovered a death note addressed to the father of the victim.
Kumar said that in the death note, the victim requested his father to repay the education loan of Rs 1 lakh. He had Rs 46,000 in his account and requested his father to pay off the loan at the earliest otherwise the interest would be calculated. He further wrote that he was going crazy and would go crazy and it was easy to get rid of life.
The 19-year-old further said that no one else was responsible for his death. He was studying with an education loan and was afraid that by the time he completed his studies, the debt burden would increase. Kumar further said that he was not sure whether he would get a job after completing his studies and was probably facing mental stress.
When his friends tried to invite him for breakfast at around 8 in the morning, he did not open the door. Around 9.30 in the morning when they tried to reach him again and peeped through the window, they found him hanging inside the room.
The college authorities were then informed, who in turn reached out to her parents.
Since he was from a poor family, his parents had reportedly expressed that they were not in a position to travel to Mangaluru and requested the authorities to conduct the cremation.
However, the college authorities, teachers and students have made arrangements for the visit of the victim’s parents and are also looking into the arrangements to send the mortal remains back home after the legal process is completed, the commissioner further added.
Surathkal police have registered a case of unnatural death and further investigation is on.
The deceased has been identified as Saurav Kumar Yadav, a student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (NITK) and a native of Bihar.
According to city police commissioner N Shashi Kumar, financial constraints may have forced the youth to take this extreme step.
The commissioner also interacted with the college administration and students.
The police have also recovered a death note addressed to the father of the victim.
Kumar said that in the death note, the victim requested his father to repay the education loan of Rs 1 lakh. He had Rs 46,000 in his account and requested his father to pay off the loan at the earliest otherwise the interest would be calculated. He further wrote that he was going crazy and would go crazy and it was easy to get rid of life.
The 19-year-old further said that no one else was responsible for his death. He was studying with an education loan and was afraid that by the time he completed his studies, the debt burden would increase. Kumar further said that he was not sure whether he would get a job after completing his studies and was probably facing mental stress.
When his friends tried to invite him for breakfast at around 8 in the morning, he did not open the door. Around 9.30 in the morning when they tried to reach him again and peeped through the window, they found him hanging inside the room.
The college authorities were then informed, who in turn reached out to her parents.
Since he was from a poor family, his parents had reportedly expressed that they were not in a position to travel to Mangaluru and requested the authorities to conduct the cremation.
However, the college authorities, teachers and students have made arrangements for the visit of the victim’s parents and are also looking into the arrangements to send the mortal remains back home after the legal process is completed, the commissioner further added.
Surathkal police have registered a case of unnatural death and further investigation is on.
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