Udupi: In a tragic incident a second PU student committed suicide in Hebri village of Udupi district after the second PUC results were announced on Monday. The student was said to be depressed after she had failed in the board examinations.

Prajna (18) a resident of Hebri village committed suicide on Monday night.

According to reports, Prajna was a student of Second PU in Arts stream and had failed in Kannada subject while securing more than 60% marks in all the remaining subjects. Depressed with the result, Prajna committed suicide by hanging herself to ceiling fan with a sari at her home.

A case has been registered at Hebri Police Station.

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Guwahati (PTI): The police have initiated an inquiry after a “hidden camera” was found in a bathroom of the girls’ hostel on the Guwahati campus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), an officer said on Friday.

The TISS authorities had intimated the police and filed a complaint in connection with the incident, he said.

“Based on the complaint, an investigation has been initiated,” the police officer said.

The TISS Guwahati, in a statement, had said that the recent incident was a “serious privacy violation, and is entirely unacceptable and condemnable”.

It said internal security protocols were being reviewed to ensure non-recurrence of any such incident in the future.

Support services are in place for the affected students, and the TISS is fully cooperating with the police in the case, the statement said.