22-year old student ends life in Osmania varsity campus

Hyderabad, Jul 31 (PTI) A 22-year-old engineering student allegedly committed suicide in the Osmania University campus here, in support for the formation of separate Telangana state, police said today. East Zone DCP M C Ladda told PTI that the charred body of P Eshan Reddy was found near the varsity library this morning and it looks like the youth immolated himself last night.

The cause of the death will be known only after the post-mortem. A bag was also found near Reddy''s body containing a suicide note and an empty bottle, police official said.

Reddy, who recently completed his BTech from a city college in Ibrahimpattnam, said in the suicide note purportedly written by him, that he was sacrificing his life after his wish that all the 12 legislators, who resigned demanding formation of separate Telangana get re-elected defeating Congress leaders, was fulfilled. "I prayed that if APCC President D Srinivas and other Congress leaders are defeated in the elections, I would sacrifice my life and now I am fulfilling the wish," the note said.

Eshan, who hailed from Medak district, named nine leaders of Congress and TDP in the suicide note and wanted them to be boycotted from the region. It also said that Eshan did not want an autopsy to be conducted on his body.

He wanted his body be taken in a procession from the Arts College located on the campus towards Gun park (Martyr''s Memorial) near the Assembly. As tension mounted in the varsity area, with students and pro-Telangna supporters gathering near the scene, police sealed the campus and were diverting traffic on the route.

Another police officer said the situation was normal as of now, and they would first conduct Eshan''s autopsy. Eshan is the fourth student to allegedly end his life for the cause of separate Telangana at the Osmania University campus even as pro-Telangana leaders claimed many other students committed suicide in different Telangana districts, ever since protests for formation of separate state began in November last year.

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