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Bengaluru: A 21-year-old student died after jumping from the fifth floor of BMS College of Engineering in southern Bengaluru’s Hanumantha Nagar on Saturday, the police said.
A preliminary probe indicated family issues as the reason for the extreme step.
Akarsh Reddy, a seventh-semester aerospace engineering student, is reported to have jumped down around 4.45 pm when no one was around. He died of a severe head injury. Students gathered on the campus and called the police.
Police investigations showed that Reddy had messaged his parents hours before the incident, expressing disappointment at certain family matters.
The police declined to specify the reason behind the suicide as Reddy's family has requested privacy. Reddy stayed with his parents in Anekal and travelled to the college by bus.
Police have ruled out any foul play in the incident and filed an unnatural death report.
'Introvert, kept to himself'
Akarsh Reddy took his internal examination around 11 am, hours before the incident. The professor, who reviewed his paper after the incident, found he had scored 38 out of 50.
The police quoted Reddy's fellow students as saying that he was an introvert, who kept to himself.