Chennai: A 17-year-old college student died by suicide at her house in Maduravoyal on Saturday evening, after being cheated by a fellow student to whom she had given gold jewellery.The Maduravoyal police said the girl was a first-year student at a private college. The police inquiries revealed that about four months ago, the girl had taken around 4-and-a-half sovereigns of gold jewellery from her house and given it to a male classmate without her parents’ knowledge. He is said to have sold the jewellery and bought a smartphone for his girlfriend, the police.When the girl asked him to return the jewels, he kept delaying and failed to return them. The police suspect that she was under severe mental distress due to this and took the extreme step. On information, the police rushed to the spot and sent the body to Kilpauk Government Hospital for postmortem. A case has been registered and further investigation is under way.(Assistance for those having suicidal thoughts is available on TN’s health helpline 104 and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050)
