Pune Student Dies After Fall From 8th Floor

A 22-year-old engineering student, Abhijit Shetty, died after falling from the eighth floor of a residential building in Pune's Kothrud area.

The incident occurred around 3 am, and Shetty was found seriously injured. He was rushed to a hospital but died before treatment could begin.

Police suspect that Shetty may have jumped, but the circumstances surrounding his death are still being investigated. Shetty had been under stress in recent days after accumulating backlogs in some subjects.

He was a third-year student of the Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering programme at a reputed college in Kothrud. Investigators are examining the circumstances leading up to the incident, and no definitive conclusion has been reached.

In a separate incident, two men from Bihar were arrested for allegedly blackmailing a 22-year-old Pune resident who died by suicide on October 1. The accused allegedly extorted ₹1.77 lakh from the victim by threatening to circulate an obscene video and implicate him in a false drug case.

The police have frozen ₹1.14 lakh across five bank accounts and seized seven mobile phones, a laptop, and a tablet worth around ₹2.25 lakh. The duo has been remanded in police custody until October 30.