Woman student ends life in univ hostel, college mates seek fair probe
TNN | Jan 13, 2020, 04.32 AM IST
Coimbatore: A 23-year-old woman postgraduate student committed suicide at Periyar University’s students hostel in Salem on Friday. Students who found about the incident on Saturday night stopped police from taking her body to a hospital for postmortem. They demanded a fair investigation into the death.
Police identifed the deceased as T Niveditha, 23, of Gopalapuram near Pappireddipatti in Dharmapuri district. She was studying MSc botany. “Niveditha had been staying in her room alone for the past 10 days as her roommates were away on project work. Other students at the hostel last saw her around 7.30pm on Friday. When she did not come out of her room whole day, they checked on her and found her hanging from a ceiling fan on Saturday night,” a police officer said.
Police are yet to find the reason for the death. They found a letter and collection of poems in her room.
Meanwhile, students in the hostel besieged police personnel and stopped them from taking her body to the Salem government hospital for postmosterm. Students said another woman student in the botany department lodged a complaint with the university authorities against a professor in her department for trying to misbehave to her. But she later withdrawn the complaint. In this background, Niveditha, who was also from the same department, committed suicide. Students sought a fair investigation into the death and urged the university authorities and police to question the professor.
Later, the college authorities and police pacified the students. The body was sent to the hospital for postmortem.
Meanwhile, the state higher education minister K P Anbalagan said proper action would be taken after the police investigation.
TNN | Jan 13, 2020, 04.32 AM IST
Coimbatore: A 23-year-old woman postgraduate student committed suicide at Periyar University’s students hostel in Salem on Friday. Students who found about the incident on Saturday night stopped police from taking her body to a hospital for postmortem. They demanded a fair investigation into the death.
Police identifed the deceased as T Niveditha, 23, of Gopalapuram near Pappireddipatti in Dharmapuri district. She was studying MSc botany. “Niveditha had been staying in her room alone for the past 10 days as her roommates were away on project work. Other students at the hostel last saw her around 7.30pm on Friday. When she did not come out of her room whole day, they checked on her and found her hanging from a ceiling fan on Saturday night,” a police officer said.
Police are yet to find the reason for the death. They found a letter and collection of poems in her room.
Meanwhile, students in the hostel besieged police personnel and stopped them from taking her body to the Salem government hospital for postmosterm. Students said another woman student in the botany department lodged a complaint with the university authorities against a professor in her department for trying to misbehave to her. But she later withdrawn the complaint. In this background, Niveditha, who was also from the same department, committed suicide. Students sought a fair investigation into the death and urged the university authorities and police to question the professor.
Later, the college authorities and police pacified the students. The body was sent to the hospital for postmortem.
Meanwhile, the state higher education minister K P Anbalagan said proper action would be taken after the police investigation.
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