Students’ deaths are continued in University of Hyderabad. A student of first year Fine Arts, N. Praveen committed suicide by hanging in his hostel room on the campus. According to Police reports, N.Praveen, was found hanging in his room L 204.
Other students in the hostel alerted Resident Medical Officer (RMO), who got Praveen shifted to a nearby private hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The body was shifted to government-run Osmania General Hospital for autopsy. Police said no suicide note was found in Praveen’s room. The reasons behind Praveen’s death are not yet known. We are investigating, a police officer said. Praveen hailed from Shadnagar town in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana. He had taken admission into the university two months ago.
University authorities expressed shock over the tragedy. In January, Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar, had committed suicide by hanging in a hostel room, due to alleged caste discrimination by the university authorities. The incident had triggered widespread protests in universities across the country.