Student posts on Instagram before hanging self

Hyderabad: An engineering student, who was allegedly scolded by her mother, hanged herself after posting on Instagram that she was "afraid to be happy".

C Mounika, 21, on Thursday hanged herself at her residence on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

"Now days I am afraid to be happy. I don't know... people don't want to look at me when I am happy in my life. Every moment in my life is going so worst," she wrote on her Instagram page.