Bengaluru techie and Vellore college girl commit suicide on railway tracks in Andhra Pradesh

VELLORE: A 22-year-old techie, who works in an IT company in Bengaluru, and his lady love, who was studying in a college in Vellore, committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train near Kuppam railway station in Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Wednesday. They were distant relatives and hailed from Tiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu.
The deceased have been identified as K Sri Hemanth Kumar of Uthukottai, a BE mechanical engineering graduate who works in an IT company in Bengaluru, and G S Monisha, 19, of Athimanjeri, who was a third-year BSc physics student at a private women’s college in Vellore.
Monisha’s parents opposed the love affair since they wanted to marry her off to her maternal uncle.
On Tuesday, the girl, who was appearing for her fifth semester examination, left her hostel and met Sri Hemanth. Later, they reached an isolated spot about one kilometre from Kuppam railway station. They contacted her father, G Shankar, who is a grocery shop owner, over phone.
Her father asked them to meet him at Athimanjeri. The lovers feared that they would be separated and decided to end lives together. They committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train.
On being informed by local villagers who noticed the mutilated bodies, the Kuppam police and the Railway Protection Force from Chittoor reached the spot. The bodies were sent to the Kuppam Government Hospital for postmortem.
Chittoor RPF police station sub-inspector Anil Kumar told TOI: “The two did not leave any suicide notes. We identified them based on their ID cards and mobile numbers and informed their parents. We registered a case and are investigating.”