In a gruesome incident the burnt body of a civil engineering student identified as Madhu was found a few kilometers away from her college. The girl was a student of Navoday Engineering College, Raichur. The tragic incident happened reportedly on 13th April and her badly burnt body was found hanging from a tree on 16th April in a forest near her college.

A suicide note was also found which mentioned that she was committing suicide because of backlogs when in fact she had cleared all her subjects. She was said to have been raped and burnt to death after being hung on a tree. Hundreds of locals took out candle march in memory of the girl demanding justice to her family.