Emotional wellbeing is as important as the physical wellbeing. Some people are more prone to emotional turmoil than others.
Violence erupted at Sathyabama University in Chennai on Wednesday night after a first-year student, who was allegedly caught cheating during an examination, committed suicide.
Subsequently, university officials have shut the campus down and asked students to leave the hostel. The management has declared a holiday for a month. The situation is under control said unidentified police officials.
Videos that went viral on social media show the students torching furniture and mattresses at the college and hostel. Firefighters brought the blaze under control, and a police team is conducting investigations, but no one has been arrested yet.
Chaos breaks out as students of #Sathyabamauniversity protest against the suicide of fellow student. @TheQuint pic.twitter.com/nr20n5AsUG
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In view of the incident, security has been beefed up around the area, police said, adding that the girls’ body was sent for post-mortem and further probe into the matter was underway.
Police identified the first year student as 18-year-old Duvvuru Monica Reddy of Andhra Pradesh. She was reportedly caught copying during a chemistry examination. “The invigilator informed other officials and she was asked to leave the hall,” a police officer was quoted as saying. Some reports alleged that Reddy committed suicide after the professor “humiliated her”.
Reddy reportedly went back to her hostel after this and sent her twin Rakesh Reddy, who was also writing an examination, a text message. When he checked on her after the exam, she was found hanging from her hostel room. After the students rushed her to a hospital, she was declared dead, the report said.
The student, it is reported, may not have been able to handle the emotional trauma and committed suicide.
A university official told the English daily that the university usually debars the students for one examination and informs the family of such incidents.
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