Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, a student pursuing his post-graduation at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) died by suicide on Monday, May 18.
Mayukh Kundu, who was a native of West Bengal and was pursuing his first year MA in Financial Economics first year, died by jumping into the Buffalo Lake on campus, after leaving behind a suicide note at his hostel room.
The students of UoH told Siasat.com that the issue started when there was a laptop of an intern going missing from F-Hostel on campus few days ago. Those who saw the stealing act of Mayukh, informed the intern. However, by then Mayukh had sold it. When he was confronted by the intern, he accepted his guilt and gave his own laptop in exchange for the loss he caused to the intern.
However, the incident took a different turn on Sunday, May 17, when four more laptops went missing- two from the reading room beside the library, and two more from the hostel.
When the victims confronted Mayukh accusing him of stealing their laptops and demanding him to return them, Mayukh informed them that though he had stolen the laptop of the intern, this time it was not he who stole the rest of the 4 laptops.
The issue escalated to the point where the activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) got involved. According to some students, the ABVP activists made a huge scene, and at least one of the students who spoke on condition of anonymity, informed Siasat.com that Mayukh was beaten up by some ABVP activists on late Sunday night, after the chief warden had dispersed the crowd at around 2.30 am.
On Monday morning, May 18, when Mayukh was nowhere seen on the campus, his roommate informed his parents about it. A search of his room revealed a suicide letter, in which Mayukh wrote: “I hope you will find your laptop, and also my body at the bottom of Buffalo Lake.”
He apologised to his mother for breaking her trust and taking the easy way out, and urged her to be strong.
In the same letter, he also mentioned that his mother’s health condition was not fine, and submitted that though he couldn’t take care of her medical needs, he took loans for taking drugs.
Based on the suicide letter, his body was searched and found inside the Buffalo Lake on Tuesday morning, May 19.
The university authorities informed the Gachibowli Police about the incident. The police shifted the student’s body to Osmania General Hospital for a postmortem.
The students claim that the issue was being side-tracked by using his ‘drug abuse’ problem, instead of focusing on the humiliation he has been subjected to, the reason why he took the extreme step.
There is an all-party meeting which will be held at UoH campus on Tuesday night, where the students are expected to issue a joint statement on the issue.
“The ABVP activists basically made a Khaap Panchayat to humiliate Mayukh, after which he probably couldn’t continue living a life in dignity on campus,” a student leader told Siasat.com.
A case has been registered at the Gachibowli Police Station and an investigation is ongoing.
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