The Department of Technical Education has ordered an enquiry into the suicide of a first year student of Kommadi Chaitanya Polytechnic College in Visakhapatnam district.
Technical Education Commissioner Chadalavada Nagarani, on Saturday, issued orders for a comprehensive probe into the incident and said a detailed report should be submitted within 24 hours. She said that based on the media reports, the department had constituted a three-member inquiry committee to bring facts of the case to light.
Pendurthi Government Polytechnic College principal N. Chandra Shekhar is the inquiry officer, while Department of Metallurgy head K. Ratna Kumar and Visakhapatnam Government Polytechnic College civil engineering lecturer K. Rajya Lakshmi are members of the panel.