Two days after a second year engineering student committed suicide, reportedly after being harassed by his college mates, the police have registered a case of abetment to suicide today against two students named in his suicide note.
"We have registered a case under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) under the Indian Penal Code, against Gaurav and Pradeep," a senior police officer from Government Railway Police, Kalyan, said.
The 19-year-old engineering student had allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a local train after allegedly being ragged by his college mates for the past two months, the police said today.
The victim, Nitin Padalkar, ended his life by jumping before a moving train at Kalyan railway station in the neighbouring Thane district on Friday evening, the police said.
A suicide note found with him allegedly named two of his college mates for harassing him, the police said.
Padalkar was depressed for quite sometime, police sources said.
He left his house in Kalyan at around 6 pm on Friday, saying that he was going to meet his friends. Later, his family received the news of his death at around 8.50 pm from the police.
Police sources said that a preliminary enquiry and circumstances of his death have led them suspect that "Padalkar was a victim of ragging".
"We will question two of his college mates on Monday," sources at Government Railway Police, Kalyan, said.
