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CHICKBALLAPUR: A final year degree student of a private college in Chickballapur committed suicide on Thursday as he was allegedly ragged and tortured by his classmate.

The police said Manjunath (21), a final year BA student, jumped into an open well near his house in Payyur village on the outskirts of Chickballapur. He was a student of Govinda Teertha First Grade College at Nandi village.

The police said that Manjunath had, in a 15-page note, mentioned that his classmate Sreenivasa used to mentally and physically torture him demanding money.

On one occasion, Manjunath had reportedly bought a mobile phone for Sreenivasa. Whenever Manjunath refused to pay him money, Sreenivasa allegedly humiliated him in the public, the police quoted the note as saying. The Chickballapur Rural police have arrested Sreenivasa of Peresandra village. They have registered a case of abetting suicide under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code against him.