Hyderabad: College principal and lecturer arrested after student suicide

Police in Hyderabad have arrested a college principal and a lecturer following the alleged suicide of Katta Banu Prasad Reddy, a 20-year-old hotel management student. The deceased, a second-year student who also worked as a delivery executive, was found hanging in his rented room in SR Nagar.

The incident reportedly stemmed from a dispute over a confiscated mobile phone. According to police investigations, the student had allegedly created a morphed video of a lecturer and shared it with a friend. Upon discovering the video, the lecturer and the principal, identified as Bhaskar and Chandrasekhar, reprimanded the student and seized his phone.

Despite repeated requests from the student and his brother to return the device, which was reportedly essential for his work as a delivery agent, the college management allegedly refused to release it. The student's brother had visited the college to apologize for the incident, but the phone was not returned.

Authorities have arrested the principal and lecturer under Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for abetment of suicide. Both individuals have been placed under judicial remand.