‘Insulted and upset’: Hyderabad student dies by suicide after college refuses to return phone seized over AI image | Hyderabad News

(AI IMAGE) Tragedy struck in Hyderabad when a 20-year-old hotel management student died by suicide, reportedly linked to the confiscation of his phone for allegedly creating an inappropriate AI image of a lecturer

HYDERABAD: A 20-year-old hotel management student allegedly died by suicide in his rented room on Friday after his college principal and a lecturer refused to return his mobile phone, which had been taken away over an alleged morphed AI image of the lecturer, according to news agency PTI.Police arrested the principal and lecturer on charges of abetting suicide on Saturday.The second-year student had allegedly created a morphed image of the lecturer using AI.Following this, the lecturer confiscated his phone and handed it over to the college principal.“The lecturer had taken the deceased student’s phone following an allegation that he had created a morphed AI image of the lecturer. The lecturer then handed over the student’s phone to the principal,” a police official said.The student had apologised over the incident, but his phone was not returned for a week. He allegedly felt “insulted and upset” over the matter before taking the extreme step, the official said, citing a complaint.Police registered a case under Section 108 (abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at SR Nagar police station.The principal and lecturer were arrested and remanded to judicial custody.