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Two students, including a second-year B.Tech Computer Electronics student and a native of Andhra Pradesh (AP), allegedly committed suicide in separate incidents in Patna and Jamui in the last 24 hours. In the suicide note, the AP student wrote that she was under stress due to taking a loan of Rs 10 lakh. Rs 6 lakh
Following the incident, a large number of students gathered at the NIT campus and staged a protest, creating a ruckus and demanding a detailed probe. Police have deployed additional forces to maintain law and order. According to classmates, the victim was a bright student and his behaviour was normal a day before the incident on Friday.
An AP student committed suicide by hanging herself from a fan in a room (fourth floor) of Kadambini hostel of the under-construction NIT campus located in Sikandarpur, Bihta, adjacent to the capital. According to City SP (West) Sharat RS, Patna police received information at around 10.30 pm on Friday night that a student has committed suicide in the NIT hostel campus. The incident came to light when the victim did not go to the mess for dinner. Her room was found locked from inside. On receiving the information, the college administration broke the door and took her to the hospital, where she was declared dead.
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Sharat said, “A police team along with FSL experts immediately reached there and recovered the body. The police took the body to ESIC Hospital Bihta for post-mortem. The FSL team has collected evidence including the victim’s mobile phone and taken the evidence with them for further investigation. The hostel where the victim lived has also been sealed, we are investigating the incident from all angles.” He said the police have found a suicide note, which states that she took the step due to personal and family reasons. Investigators familiar with the case told HT that the student wrote that she was under stress due to taking a loan. Based on the statement of security guard Neha Kumari, a case of unnatural death has been registered at the Bihta police station.
Investigators are particularly interested in finding out what prompted the student to take such an extreme step. Police plan to question the hostel warden and fellow students to gather clues, and they hope that the victim’s call records may shed light on the situation.
The students living in the Bihta NIT campus allege that the construction of the campus has not been completed yet and we have all been shifted here from Patna NIT. There is a lot of difficulty in studies as well. The students allege that the college administration is trying to suppress the matter and the students have been asked to live in the hostel located in Bihta without any proper facilities.
In another incident, an intermediate student committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling late Friday night in Barhat Mohalla of Jamui. The victim was a student of Sukardas High School. Talking to reporters, the victim’s father Upendra Singh said that his daughter took this step because her mother scolded her for using mobile instead of cooking food.
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