Puducherry: Five teachers of a private engineering college near here were yesterday booked by police for allegedly abetting the suicide of a first year B.Tech girl student, who had "poor" academic record.

A case under IPC section 306 (abetment of suicide) has been registered against the teachers in the wake of complaints from the parents of the student who leaped to her death from the fourth floor of the college building yesterday, police said.

Parents of I Vinodhini, a first year B.Tech (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) student, suspected foul play and refused to claim the body and demanded justice.