ICFAI Professor kills self, abandons children
HYDERABAD: A 34-year-old assistant professor of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India committed suicide on a railway track near the Saibaba temple at the Secunderabad railway station Saturday night.
R Guru Prasad, a resident of Anandbagh under Malkajgiri police limits, had taken his two children with him but their whereabouts are still unknown. According to police, Prasad, who had been locked in an acrimonious divorce battle with his wife Suhasini, put his head under a train.
He had permission to take his children out only once a month ' which he did on Saturday but didn't return them to Suhasini. The Secunderabad railway police, who were alerted by railway guards, recovered his body early Sunday. They identified the body as that of Guru Prasad after contacting the Malkajgiri police.
Suhasini had lodged a complaint with the latter Sunday morning stating that her husband hadn't brought her children back.
A suicide note found at Prasad's residence pointed at marital issues for his extreme step. Malkajgiri inspector G Sekhar Goud told Suhasini, in her complaint, said she was married to Prasad in 2004 and that they have two children' Vittal (9) and Nandu (5).
'They had been having disputes for the last two years. She filed a petition in court seeking a divorce. Prasad had also moved the court seeking directions to visit his wife's house to meet his sons on first Saturday of every month. The court had allowed his plea,' the inspector explained. Prasad, it seems, also wrote a brief history of his married life but didn't reveal the whereabouts of his sons.
The Malkajgiri police registered a missing case and formed special teams to trace Vittal and Nandu. However, the teams haven't been successful so far as Guru Prasad hasn't left any clues about their whereabouts.
News Posted: 6 October, 2014
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