<p>A PUC student who went missing on May 3 was found dead — buried in a truckload of sand — four days later. Police believe he faced harassment from his college mates. </p>.<p>Somanath R (19), a student of Samruddhi College, went missing from his house in Kathmandu Layout, Hoskote, around the midnight of May 3.</p>.<p>His father Ramesh R, a glass and plywood businessman, filed a missing complaint with the Hoskote police the next day. </p>.<p>The body was discovered around 3 pm on May 7 when workers at a building site in eastern Bengaluru’s HAL area unloaded m-sand from a truck. The workers, the truck driver and others were stunned to find a body in the sand mound. They immediately called the police. </p>.<p>It was sheer luck that the police identified the deceased. Save for a facemask and a small torch in a pocket of his trousers, there was little that could help the police identify him. </p>.<p>But the mask provided the lead as it carried the name and phone number of a plywood dealer.</p>.<p>When police contacted the dealer named Ravi Kumar, he told them that the son of a sub-dealer Ramesh R has gone missing. Kumar positively identified the body as that of Somanath. </p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Note left for parents </strong></p>.<p>Somanath’s parents told the police that he had left home after leaving an ominous message: he faced harassment and intimidation from some college mates and decided to kill himself. </p>.<p>Police found Somanath had exchanged messages with his college mates about a girl studying in the college.</p>.<p>On May 3, the day Somanath went missing, screenshots of the messages were posted on a WhatsApp group created by the students. Some students objected to Somanath’s messages and warned to beat him in the college. </p>.<p>Police suspect that Somanath got scared after reading the messages and killed himself. The autopsy report is awaited. </p>
<p>A PUC student who went missing on May 3 was found dead — buried in a truckload of sand — four days later. Police believe he faced harassment from his college mates. </p>.<p>Somanath R (19), a student of Samruddhi College, went missing from his house in Kathmandu Layout, Hoskote, around the midnight of May 3.</p>.<p>His father Ramesh R, a glass and plywood businessman, filed a missing complaint with the Hoskote police the next day. </p>.<p>The body was discovered around 3 pm on May 7 when workers at a building site in eastern Bengaluru’s HAL area unloaded m-sand from a truck. The workers, the truck driver and others were stunned to find a body in the sand mound. They immediately called the police. </p>.<p>It was sheer luck that the police identified the deceased. Save for a facemask and a small torch in a pocket of his trousers, there was little that could help the police identify him. </p>.<p>But the mask provided the lead as it carried the name and phone number of a plywood dealer.</p>.<p>When police contacted the dealer named Ravi Kumar, he told them that the son of a sub-dealer Ramesh R has gone missing. Kumar positively identified the body as that of Somanath. </p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Note left for parents </strong></p>.<p>Somanath’s parents told the police that he had left home after leaving an ominous message: he faced harassment and intimidation from some college mates and decided to kill himself. </p>.<p>Police found Somanath had exchanged messages with his college mates about a girl studying in the college.</p>.<p>On May 3, the day Somanath went missing, screenshots of the messages were posted on a WhatsApp group created by the students. Some students objected to Somanath’s messages and warned to beat him in the college. </p>.<p>Police suspect that Somanath got scared after reading the messages and killed himself. The autopsy report is awaited. </p>
