Hyderabad: 2 Engineering students die in road mishap, 1kg ganja recovered

Hyderabad: In a ghastly accident, two engineering students died on the spot when the bike they were riding crashed into a road divider at Dundigal on Saturday night. The victims were identified as G Sujith Kumar, a native of Mancherial and Ananth Vishal, a native of Kamareddy.

According to police, the students were studying in a reputed engineering college in the city and were staying in separate private hostels. The parents of Sujith gifted him a bike on his birthday on December 2 and he was about to go back to his hometown after completing his last exam on December 8.

However, the tragedy struck his family as he met with the accident along with his friend and died on spot. When our teams visited the spot, we found a kg of ganja in their bags and it was astonishing to see so much of quantity in their bags. But the source of the drug was not yet revealed, and we are in the process of tracing it, said the inspector of Dundigal, A. Venkatesham.

He noted, "It is suspected that they purchased the ganja from a dealer and were returning to their hostel at the time of the accident. Moreover, the rider Sujith who was riding the bike at the time of the accident lost control over the bike due to overspeeding and hit the divider. The impact of the accident was such that, both the students were thrown into the air and fell on the other side of the road."

Sujith's father Goparaju Kumar while speaking to the media, said that he was their only son.

He added, "As he had celebrated his birthday on December 2 at my sister's residence with her family at Hi-Tech city, we watched it live from our home in Mancherial. But we never expected that such an incident would occur to us."