Student returns home from LGBT rally,ends life

“Vamshi danced at the rally and was captured by TV cameras. The family could not have missed the visuals in eve-ning news. Sunday night,there was a big fight at his home after he returned. Unable to bear the rejection of his own family,a depressed Vamshi committed suicide,” Manohar Elava-rthi,a human rights activist with Sangama and joint secretary of Praja Rajakiya Vedike,said. “The family is responsible for the extreme step taken by Vamshi and they have lied to the police. Last week,he was subjected to severe physical violence by his father at his home and had to seek shelter in a transgender friend’s house.

Last year,he was prevented from attending college for two months by his parents over this issue. The police can investigate,” he said,adding,“He was going through a lot of harassment. His family did not like him interacting with members of the sexual minority.”

A death note left behind by Vamshi,however,did not refer to problems at home over his sexual orientation,Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sandeep Patil said.

“We have not come across this aspect. If anyone files a complaint in this regard,we will take necessary action. The parents have said it is a case of suicide and the death note says the same,” he said. In the note,Vamshi says he was taking the extreme step because he was “not a good student,nor a good son” and because his “parents were disappointed with him”.

Muniraju reportedly found Vamshi frothing at the mouth and vomiting at around 2 am on Monday and rushed him to a nearby hospital,where doctors declared him dead.