18-year-old Jayant Darokar was shocked when he found a dead baby rat inside his South Indian Thali on Tuesday morning.
A student from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, said, the incident shook the wits of at least 400 students living at the Aravali Boys Hostel inside the premier Engineering institute.
Narrating about the sequence of events, a third year Biochemical Engineering student told The Pioneer, “On Tuesday morning, between 7:30 to 9:30 breakfast is served to us at the Boys Hostel mess. While we had taken our share of the food, one of the students, Jayant shrieked in terror when he found a small dead rat inside the thick white chutney in his thali.”
“This is not the first time that a dead animal has been found in our mess food. We have submitted several complaints to the Director of the IIT, Delhi, Ram Gopal Rai about similar sightings in our food. On earlier occasions, we have found cockroaches, ink, and honeybee inside our food. Following which we had submitted complaints to our professors and the institute director but in vain.
On Tuesday too, when we went to the IIT Delhi administration, their response was non responsive while their behavior was aloof”.
“Although we have gone through such terrible experiences, but we are now fed up.” Narrating about the dead mouse sighting in the food, Jashan Puri, a student on Facebook shared a post along with a photo of the food.
“So in the temple of technology, IIT DElHI, where students yearn for years to come,where professors incessantly keep blaring about the importance of studying and how they strive to provide us the best environment. Today, in one of the hostels, a dead mouse was found in the chutney. A f*****g dead mouse. The number of viruses, diseases that a mouse can spread by touching us is insane, let alone eating chutney made with the mouse.
I request you guys to share this photo and let everyone around you know, that all the hype around this college created by ignorant parents and these coaching institutions is a f*****g farce. We live in fear of not only the surmounting academic pressure but also in fear of food poisoning, dengue, cholera dysentery and all the worst of diseases. A f*****g sacrilege (sic),”
“This is enough. It is about the health of 400 students. The administration needs to take strict action against the mess vendor,” said another IIT Delhi student, requesting anonymity.
