Engineering student hangs to death

COIMBATORE: A 21-year-old Kerala native was found hanging in his college hostel near Billichi village at Periyanaickenpalayam on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday.


Police identified the victim as Ebin Robit K Jhoni of Malappuram, who was a final year

Mechanical Engineering

student in a private

engineering

college here. He was wearing a sari and a pair of high-heel sandals.

Police have recovered an 18-minute video the victim made before committing suicide. “He had purchase the sari and the sandals a few days before his death. In the video, which was recovered from his mobile phone, he was seen doing ramp walk clad in the sari in the hostel room. It also shows him hanging himself with a scarf tied to the window,” a police officer said.

The Periyanaickenpalayam police were alerted by the victim’s friends. The body was handed over to his parents after postmortem.

Police have registered a case under Section 174 (unnatural death) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Further investigating is on.