Female PhD students ends life over ‘humiliation’ in Nacharam

Hyderabad: A 28-year-old PhD student Deepti ended her life allegedly due to pressure and “harassment” by a family demanding repayment of money taken by her father Sangeeta Rao by promising to get a job at IICT (a central research institute). The incident took place under Nacharam police station limits on Friday.
Deepti, a resident of Saraswati colony, was working as a project assistant at the central research institute in Hyderabad. The victim’s mother filed a complaint with the local police stating that two years ago, her husband Rao (the deceased student’s father) had promised to arrange a job for the female member of constable Bella Anil’s family and received Rs. 15 lakh from them.
The police registered a case under the provisions of abetment to suicide and the SC/ST Act against Anil, his wife Anita, her father Somayya, and her brother Saidulu. After a preliminary probe, the Nacharam police arrested Anita and Somayya and also the deceased woman’s father Sangeeta Rao. The accused family claimed that they gave the money to Rao in her presence while the complainant rejected it.
Anil, along with his wife Anita, her father Somayya, and her brother Saidulu had started putting pressure on the deceased student and her father after he failed to deliver on his promise. Anil and his family continued to target her even after she clarified that her father was not staying with them.
In her complaint, the victim’s mother said the family humiliated her daughter and also filed a cheating case against her and her father. When they asked Anil’s family to withdraw the cheating case, they demanded Rs. 35 lakh from them and also threatened to destroy their lives, the complainant added.
Unable to bear the humiliation and harassment, the young student took the extreme step by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her house on December 25.
Meanwhile, a selfie video of the deceased student is going viral on social media in which she claimed that police harassment had pushed her to take the extreme step. She also stated that Anil and his family filed a fake case against her and caused her severe mental distress.