Murder case filed in college girl’s death

Murder case filed in college girl’s death

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Trichy:21,01,2021

Trichy district police have registered a murder case in connection with the unexplained death of a 19-year-old BPharm student at the women’s hostel of a private college at Samayapuram on Tuesday. A resident of Poiyur in Ariyalur district, the deceased R Rajeswari was a second year BPharm student at Srinivasan college of pharmaceutical sciences and was staying in the college hostel.

According to the first information report quoting the complaint of the girl’s father Ramaiyan, the principal informed him over phone that she was found lying on the ground behind the women’s hostel around 7.30 am on Tuesday. The principal told him that Rajeswari fainted and died later at the SRM hospital in Iringalur. However, the college administration told him that the girl must have fallen off the fourth floor of the hostel.

The FIR of Samayapuram police said Ramaiyan raised suspicions over the death and that she might have been murdered. He mentioned having found injuries on her jaw and right leg, bruises on her back and hand when he saw her body at the hospital in Irungalur on Tuesday. Inspector Anbazhagan of Samayapuram police told TOI on Wednesday that a case of murder has been booked based on the complaint. The girl had returned from home after Pongal holidays only on Monday night.

“She was one of the seven students staying in the hostel. Though the injury marks do not lead to any suspicion of murder, the viscera has been collected for examination to determine the cause of death. Since the father raised the suspicion of murder, we have registered a case of murder,” Inspector Anbalagan said. The postmortem was performed at the government hospital in Srirangam on Wednesday.