Hyderabad: Academic pressure leads to engg student ending his life

Hyderabad: A 21-year-old engineering student committed suicide by hanging because of academic pressure in Nizampet on Saturday night.

The Bachupally police has identified the deceased as S. Sainath, a student of Gokaraju Rangaraju engineering college, Hyderabad hailing from Adilabad.

Inspector of Bachupally, K. Balakrishna Reddy said, “He completed B.Tech III year and was undergoing coaching during the holidays.”

He reportedly mentioned to his friends that he was finding it difficult to study for the competitive exams. Police booked a case under Section 174 (a) and started an investigation. The body was sent for postmortem at the Gandhi hospital.