sad demise of our fellow horizonite.

BANGALORE: A first-year engineering student fell from the fourth floor of a college hostel building on Saturday morning. He was trying to hold on to his cellphone after it slipped from his hand.

BULL CRAP!!

Vivek Raj, 18, from Bhagalpur in Bihar, was studying in New Horizon Engineering College off Marathalli Ring Road. He was staying at the college hostel.

HAL inspector N Purushotham said they are trying to find out whether Vivek was talking on the phone or sitting on the parapet seconds before he fell.

FINAL MOMENTS

It was 10.30 am. Fifteen minutes earlier, Vivek was reading newspapers on the ground floor near the gate. He even wished good morning to hostel warden Rao, who passed by. Then Vivek approached the security guard Bipin and asked for the key to the third floor. He wanted to wash clothes.

Police said Vivek took the stairs to the third floor with two buckets of clothes. Bipin also confirmed that he had gone to the third floor and had a chat with Vivek.

Ten minutes after Bipin came downstairs, he heard a loud thud. When he went to investigate, he found Vivek had fallen from the terrace, which is on the fourth floor.

Bipin informed Rao and the hostel's medical attendant immediately. Two PG students also helped in taking Vivek to a nearby private hospital. There, doctors declared him brought dead.

CONFUSION LINGERS

Bipin said he wasn't sure when exactly Vivek went to the terrace. Vivek's cellphone, which was damaged badly, was lying next to him. According to students at the hostel, Vivek probably received a call while washing clothes, so he went to the terrace while answering the call. The phone may have slipped from his hand near the parapet, and he must have lost balance while trying to hold on to it.

But Purushotham said nobody actually saw what happened. "The phone is damaged. We are trying to get call details to ascertain the last caller and the time Vivek received it," he said.

HOSTELLERS CRY FOUL

The hostellers are complaining against the management. While some claimed Vivek committed suicide due to "problems at the hostel", others said nobody attended to Vivek for half-an-hour. But nobody has come forward to record or register any complaint in this regard.

Vivek's sister Rainy said it was an accident. She recently completed graduation at another college in Bangalore.

Chairman of New Horizon Group of Educational Institutes Mohan Maghnani said police are carrying out investigation.

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Deccan Chronicle

● SLIPPED WHILE SPEAKING ON THE CELLPHONE: COPS

BE student falls off terrace, dies

DC CORRESPONDENT

BENGALURU

Nov. 28: An engineering

student died after falling off

the terrace of his college

hostel in HAL police limits

Saturday morning.

Vivek Raj alias Vineet,

18, from Bihar, reportedly

slipped and lost his balance

while speaking on his cellphone

and simultaneously

trying to dry clothes on the

terrace around 10.15 am.

He was residing at the New

Horizon Engineering College

hostel on Marathahalli

Outer Ring Road.

Vivek was later shifted to

a nearby hospital where the

doctors declared him

brought dead on arrival.

“He was taken to a hospital

by his classmates immediately

after the incident,” an

HAL police officer said.

Vivek, a first year IT student,

had gone to the library

around 9.30 am after breakfast.

Later, he went to the warden’s

room and took the

keys to the terrace to wash

and dry his clothes. While

he was trying to dry the

clothes, he got a call on his

cell phone.

The local police is yet to

ascertain who called him on

the cell phone. “He was

standing near the parapet

when he slipped and fell to

the ground,” the officer

said.

Vivek sustained serious

head injuries and was

unconscious when his

classmates, who heard the

sound, rushed to his help.

Inmates at the hostel

alleged that no first aid kit

was available with the management

in case of an emergency.

“It took more than 20 minutes

to shift Vivek to an

autorickshaw from the accident

spot,” said one of his

classmates.

A management official

brushed away rumours of a

suicide by Vivek and said it

was an accidental death.

“He was a good student

and had no reason to take

such an extreme step,” he

said. According to Vivek’s

sister Rainy Raj, “My

brother didn’t have suicidal

tendencies. This is an accidental

death and I have no

doubts in this regard,” she

said.

DNA

Mobile sends student hurtling down

The phone slipped out of the teenager's hand and he sought to hold on to it with fatal consequences

K Ramanujam. Bangalore

An 18-year-old engineering student who was talking to a friend on his mobile phone, fell to death from the third floor of his hostel building as he was trying to catch hold of the phone which slipped out of his hand. The incident happened on Saturday at a college hostel in Marathahalli. The police have identified the deceased as Vivek Raj (18), whose hailed from Bhagalpur in Bihar. A first year BE student, Vivek was studying Information Science at New Horizon College of Engineering. He stayed at the first floor of the hostel situated on the college campus. On Saturday, he had gone to the terrace to wash clothes when the fateful incident occurred. Vivek was talking to his friend over telephone and sitting on the parapet wall of the terrace when his phone slipped out of his hand. He tried to catch the phone when he lost his balance and fell down. His college seniors, who saw the accident, rushed to the spot and took him to the VIMS Specialty Hospital the where doctors declared him dead, on arrival. Vivek's sister, Rainey Raj, said that one of the students had told her that the college management tried to hush up the issue by claiming that it was a case of suicide. But the sister emphatically said that her brother was very good at studies and intelligent and had no reason to kill himself. The dean and other members of the administration of New Horizon college of engineering later agreed that Vivek was a good student and the death was the result on an accident. The HAL police are investigating the case.