Daijiworld Media Network - Bagalkot (SP)

Bagalkot, Oct 21: Regina Fatima (22), an M Tech student, committed suicide at her hostel room at the women's hostel at Vidyagiri here on the afternoon of Thursday October 20. She was the second year postgraduate student of civil engineering department at Basaveshwara Engineering College here. She hanged herself after her roommates left to attend the afternoon session of her college, sources said.

Policemen of Navanagara station, who have registered a case about this suicide, reportedly accessed a suicide note left behind by the student. The letter addressed to her parents, says that she was not fit to be their daughter. "Please forgive me. I am finding it hard to continue to live. I do not know why, but I lack the courage to face life. So I have taken this decision. Please pardon me. Dear father, I love you and miss you. Please look after my elder brother well. I sincerely wish that I will get to be born as the daughter of my mother again in my next birth. No one is responsible for my death," she is said to have stated therein.

Regina was originally from Bengaluru. Her father, Jayaram, lives with family at Vijayapura because of business interests, it is learnt. The parents reached the hostel immediately after they came to know about this tragic news. On Thursday evening, the body was moved out of the hostel and handed over to the parents after a postmortem. The parents of the student were inconsolable at that time.