One held, hunt on for 6 for suicide by student

Chennai: Four days after a student of Presidency College committed suicide by jumping in front of a train at Thiruninravur, the Tiruvallur railway police have arrested a student of Pachaiyappa’s College on charges of abetment to suicide and booked six others. Police have launched a hunt for the absconding students for humiliating and bullying the deceased.Minutes after sending a voice message to friends and family that he was ending his life unable to bear the humiliation by students of Pachaiyappa’s College, 21-year-old M Kumar, a first-year MA (history) student at Presidency College, jumped in front of a train. Kumar said he did not want to live a life given as ‘alms’ by the students of Pachaiyappa’s College and apologized to his mother and friends. Police said Kumar jumped in front of a double-decker train from Bengaluru around 8.40pm, a few meters from Thiruninravur railway station. Tiruvallur railway police found the involvement of seven students, including Manoj Kumar, 18, of Pachaiyappa’s College.