Krishnagiri: A Class XII student committed suicide by hanging in his hostel room near Uthankarai here on Saturday night. Police said they were yet to ascertain the reason behind the suicide.
The Uthankarai police identified the deceased as A Gopalakrishnan, 17, of Changam in Tiruvannamalai district. A student of the government school at Uthankarai, he was staying in a government hostel for backward class students in the town.
A police officer said 50 students were staying in the hostel and 36 of them had gone to their houses for the weekend.
“After dinner, Gopalakrishnan went to his room and locked it from inside. His roommates came a bit late and knocked on the door for a few minutes. As there was no response, they glanced through the door gap and found Gopalakrishnan hanging from the ceiling of the room,” the officer said.
The students immediately alerted the hostel wardens and they called up the Uthankarai police, who broke open the room and retrieved the body.
Deputy superintendent of police Amala Adwin said the student used a cable wire to hang himself. “The student had attempted to commit suicide on the hostel premises twice in the past. We are trying to identify the factors that drove him to take the extreme step.”
The dead body was sent to the government hospital at Uthankarai for postmortem. Police have registered a case and further inquiry is on. tnn
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