Hyderabad, April 27 --  For four months, Racharla Karthik had been watching videos on how to end his life. The 19-year-old first-year degree student, already struggling under the weight of academic pressure and a father's comparisons, had apparently been searching and finding content that showed him the way out.

On Sunday, April 26, he used it.

Karthik was found hanging from a towel in his hostel room at the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Gurukul near Nanchari Madur village in Thorrur mandal, Mahabubabad district. 

A fellow student, Nitin, told police he had last seen Karthik on his phone before stepping out briefly. When he returned, Karthik was hanging. Nitin gathered other hostel residents before informing the warden, who called t...