Mumbai: Mumbai Police is likely to arrest one of the two accused named by 19-year-old engineering student Nitin Padalkar in his suicide note. Nitin had alleged that he was driven to suicide by the two boys who ragged him continuously.
The inquiry report from his college is expected to be ready on Wednesday. Nitin, a second-year engineering student of a Navi Mumbai college, had jumped to his death in front of a running train last week.
The victim, Nitin Padalkar, ended his life by jumping before a running train at Kalyan railway station in the neighbouring Thane district on Friday evening. He has allegedly named two of his college-mates for harassing him in a suicide note, police said.
Padalkar, a second-year student of electronics and telecommunications at the Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai, was depressed for quite sometime, police sources said. Nitin left his house in Kalyan at around 6:00 pm on Friday saying that he was going to meet his friends. Later, his family got the news of his death at around 8:50 pm from the police. ...
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