Apparently upset that his father scolded him in front of his teacher, a B Tech student committed suicide by leaping from the third floor of his college building in Ibrahimpatnam on Saturday.
According to the information, the boy Venkata Chaitanya was studying B Tech 3rd year (Mechanical Engineering) in Sri Indu Engineering College in Ibrahimpatnam, on the city's outskirts. As the boy was not taking interest in his studies and had 15 backlogs, the college principal informed his father on the phone about the situation. When his father came to the college on Saturday morning and met the principal, the latter directed him to meet the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The latter explained about the poor performance of Chaitanya to his father.
Annoyed over his son's behaviour, Chaitanya's father scolded him in front of the HoD. Deeply upset over his father pulling him up before the teacher, Chaitanya went to the third floor of his college building and leapt from there and suffered very critical injuries. The boy was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital in a precarious condition. However, he breathed his last while being treated.
The police registered a case and sent the body for a post-mortem.