Telangana: Boy ends life over college refusal to give Intermediate certificates for engineering seat

HYDERABAD: An Intermediate student, who attempted suicide after a college on city outskirts allegedly refused to give certificates for Eamcet counselling over fee dues, succumbed in a hospital in Karimnagar on Monday. Jakkula Ankith (20) had consumed pesticide at his home in Kalamadugu village in Jannaram in Mancherial district on August 27.
He was immediately taken to a hospital in Mancherial and later shifted to the hospital in Karimnagar where he subsequently died, police said.There was no suicide note, but his family said that he was dejected after the college declined to give the certificates despite repeated requests. Ankith’s family said that he had performed well in Eamcet and was hopeful of getting an engineering seat in a good college.
The certificate verification was from August 23 and he had approached the college on August 23 and 24. Later, his father went to the college on August 25 and 26 to get the certificates. But the college, which is in Adibatla, made it clear that until Rs 40,000 fee dues were cleared, the certificates would not be given, as per the complaint to the police. “The boy’s father, Srinivas, made two trips to plead with the college for the certificates, but they insisted on the dues being cleared. We have received a complaint and registered a case,” a Jannaram cop told TOI on Tuesday The father named two persons of the college in the complaint. He said it was because they refused to heed their plea for certificates that his son ended his life.