Ragging drives engineering student to commit suicide

Chennai: Ragging by a third year student of Satyabhama Engineering College in Chennai allegedly drove his junior Krishna Chaitanya to commit suicide at his house at Nizampet in Hyderabad. Chaitanya, a second year engineering student, stated that his senior Shekhar had been ragging and harassing him for past several days. “The victim mentioned in the diary that Shekhar used to draw money using the former’s bank debit card and once beat him up for using a pen drive,” police inspector V Sreekanth Goud said. A case of ragging and abatement to suicide was registered against Shekhar.