HYDERABAD: A 23-year-old engineering student-cum-Youtuber allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the terrace of an apartment complex at Saidabad in the wee hours of Thursday. Lack of patronage for his channel is reportedly one of the reasons for his extreme step.
Saidabad inspector Subba Rami Reddy said C Dheena, a fourth-year engineering student of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM)-Gwalior, jumped from the top of their apartment complex (a G+3 building) around 5.30am. The apartment watchman heard a loud thud and rushed to the spot, where Dheena was found in a pool of blood. He died on the spot.
Dheena had been operating a Youtube channel, SELFLO, uploading content related to gaming. When the incident took place, his parents were asleep. "Both his parents are working. Around 8.30 pm on Wednesday, his mother returned home after office and found him sleeping in his room. She did not want to disturb him and later his parents slept too," Saidabad sub-inspector L Ravi Kumar told TOI. His father is a railway employee.
Police found that Dheena, who was attending classes online from home, had written about his life and explained his disappointment, on two issues. "Lack of viewership of his Youtube channel and no proper guidance for his career as disappointments," the inspector said.
Police registered a case under Section 174 (suspicious death) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).