Bengaluru student jumps to death after being caught for malpractice, Parents Blame College

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A 19-year-old engineering student jumps to death in Bangalore after being caught with a mobile phone during the exam. The parents of the deceased student accuse the college authorities of incitement to suicide.

Updated July 22, 2023 | 11:03 a.m. HST

Bengaluru student jumps to death after being caught for malpractice, Parents Blame College

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A 19-year-old engineering student jumps to death in Bangalore after being caught with a mobile phone during the exam. Police identified the deceased as Aditya Prabhu and he was a first semester student of BTech (computer science). The unfortunate incident was reported Monday on the campus of PES University, where he was studying engineering. The parents of the deceased student accuse the college authorities of incitement to suicide.

Adityas’ father, Ganesh Prabhu, filed a lawsuit against the college management, principal and other staff, blaming them for his son’s death.

Aditya left the 8th floor of a building on the university campus after being accused of professional misconduct. According to police, at around 11:30 a.m. Monday, a proctor saw Aditya using a cellphone inside the exam hall. The device was confiscated and Aditya was advised by other faculty members. He was told that his parents would be notified of the incident.

Following this, Aditya took the extreme step between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m.

In the FIR filed by Adityas’ father, the college management did not give him the opportunity to explain himself. According to the local reports, he further claimed that the faculties present Aditya says to them, better to die than to do such things.

An Instagram user, supposedly Aditya’s mother, posted, I got a call from Aditya at 11:45am on July 17th. He told me that he forgot to put the phone back in his bag and the phone remained in his pants pocket. Aditya also said that they were harassing him, they told him it was better to die than do such things and asked me to come to college.

However, the credibility of the account is not confirmed to date.

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