All three medical students have got anticipatory bail and cannot be arrested till May 30
A case of alleged ragging and abetment to suicide has been registered against three female medical students after their fourth roommate committed suicide at the girls’ hostel in Jalgaon in the early hours of Sunday. All three have got anticipatory bail and cannot be arrested till May 30.
The deceased, Priyanka Mukherjee (19), hanged herself soon after her friends left for studying on the terrace of the hostel next to Dr Ulhas Patil Medical College and Hospital in Jalgaon-Bhusawal Road, Jalgaon Khurd.
Her father, Nayan, has filed an FIR against the three roommates alleging that they called his daughter “fat”. Further, her roommates allegedly taunted her as she was from West Bengal and couldn’t speak the regional language. They would throw water at her and tell her to leave the room every time she would speak on the phone. The girl had told this to her father when she had gone home for vacations.
The police said the girl had kidney stones and breathing problem. She had failed in her September exams and ended her life two days before her next exams.
Sub-inspector R.K. Nagrale said all these factors added to her miseries and the ragging further triggered her suicide. The victim left behind a suicide note holding the roommates responsible for her extreme step. She has written a few more pages in Bengali, which have been sent for examination along with her cellphone.
Mr Nagrale feels the girl should have opened up about her problems as neither the principal nor her hostel chief knew about the ragging.
Her close friends have not been questioned yet. An FIR has been registered.
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