IIT student's suicide in Vizag leaves cops clueless
VISAKHAPATNAM: The body of IIT-Mumbai student M Sivateja, who reportedly committed suicide in a hotel room in the city, was handed over to his parents Sunday after postmortem. The family members made arrangements to shift the body to Hyderabad even as the police were investigating into the mysterious suicide.
Neither the cops nor Sivateja's parents could understand as to why the youth came down to the city all the way from Mumbai to kill himself.
Though the police were probing the details of the youth's cell phone, laptop, email and social networking accounts, they did not get any clue so far.
Sivateja's father Rajasekhara Reddy, who was working at a private company in Hyderabad, told the cops that he found no reason for his son's visit to Visakhapatnam.
While the family was yet to come to terms with the death of Sivateja, they reiterated that he had no reason to commit suicide as he was a brilliant student and also submitted his PhD thesis recently, which received good response from his faculty. 'We do not have any financial problems either,' Rajasekhara Reddy said.
Meanwhile, the police suspect that Sivateja's idea to commit suicide using polythene cover and plastic tape was borrowed from the Internet. 'Such suicides are never seen before in the state and this could be probably the first.
As several videos on methods of suicide are available online and such cases have been reported abroad earlier, we suspect that he might have killed himself after watching these videos,' said a police officer.
News Posted: 20 January, 2014
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