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Anna univ student ends life after being blackmailed with private pics, 5 held
The New Indian Express
|September 22, 2025
A day after a third-year engineering student of Anna University, Tiruchy regional campus, died by suicide on the Rameswaram-Chennai railway section near Tiruchy, the Pudukkottai police on Sunday arrested five persons on charges of blackmailing him with private pictures.
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The student, a native of Srivilliputhur in Virudhunagar, was found dead on the tracks near Kumaramangalam late on Saturday. The Government Railway Police (GRP) received information around 11.30 pm. They identified the body and later shifted it to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital for postmortem.
Police said the 21-year-old left behind a suicide note at his house near the campus.
This story is from the September 22, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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