Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
A 21-year-old engineering college student ended life at her hostel room situated in Kengeri on Wednesday.
The deceased Shivani Kashinath was pursing her electronics and computer engineer at JSS engineer college and stayed in the third floor of the hostel room.
Senior officer visited the spot and after inspecting the spot he said that the student identified as,Shivani did not attend her exam and locked herself in the room from inside .
The incident came to light when warden during her routine check found the doors locked from inside and when repeated calls did not yield any respond,she called the helper for assistant and checked through the glass window to find her hanging to the ceiling fan.
Based on the complaint,the Kengeri police rushed to the spot broke open the door and recovered the body.
The Principal of the college in his complaint to the police said that Shivani might have taken the extreme step due to dejection in life.
However the police have taken up a case of un natural death and investigating to ascertain the reason behind her extreme step.
The police are awaiting post mortem report while checking her mobile phone and laptops for clues.
(Those in distress or those having suicidal tendencies can call Arogya Sahayavani Ph.:104 for help.)
