Life Holds No Intrigue Anymore, IIT Hyderabad Student Wrote To Friends Before Committing Suicide
IIT Hyderabad student Anirudhya Mummaneni jumped to his death from the seven-storey hostel building on the campus. The 21-year-old final year mechanical and aerospace engineering student was depressed and had even taken counselling from a psychiatrist a few days ago.
A day after his death, in what was initially believed to be an accidental fall, Police now says that IIT Hyderabad student Anirudhya Mummaneni jumped to his death from the seven-storey hostel building on the campus.
PTI reported that before he committed suicide, Anirudhya had written an email to his friends hinting that he was ending his life.
¡°The decision to end my life is purely logical, based on my estimation of what the future contains. Life holds no intrigue anymore and the daily grind is becoming more difficult with time,¡± the email which has surfaced after his death read.
According to police the 21-year-old final year mechanical and aerospace engineering student was depressed and had even taken counselling from a psychiatrist a few days ago.
Anirudhya, the only son of his parents was on the terrace of the hostel building on Thursday. He was reportedly talking on the phone when he jumped off, leading to initial suspicion that it was an accident.
¡°His father M Rajan, a businessman, is in a state of depression because Anirudhya was his only son. The boy¡¯s elder sister got married to a doctor recently,¡± a police officer said.
It is not yet clear that what drove Anirudhya to depression and subsequently ending his life.
A look on his Facebook profile too gives out nothing. Anirudhya appears to be not so active on social media and the last time he posted a photo of him was back in 2015. Since then the only public activity on his account are occasional profile picture changes, which are just comic characters.
Anirudhya is the latest name in a growing list of students of India's premier technical institution ending their lives.
In January, IIT Madras saw two suicides inside its campus, Gopal Babu, a first year student of M.Tech committed suicide in his room in Brahmaputra hostel on January 28.
On January 1, Ranjana Kumari, a PhD scholar at IIT-M's metallurgy department had committed suicide in her hostel room.
On January 7, Pannem Pavan, a B Tech student from IIT Guwahati has committed suicide in the campus premises.
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