The unnatural death of a Ravenshaw University girl student, whose body was retrieved by the railway police from a railway tracks here late on Thursday evening, has snowballed into a major controversy when the girl’s father refusing to buy the police claim, suspected that she was murdered.
The police, however, after preliminary investigations and on the basis of circumstantial evidences believed that the girl either died falling accidentally from a running train or committed suicide. “We are investigating all angles and now waiting for the postmortem report,” said a senior railway police official on Friday evening.
The body of the first year degree student was found lying along the railway tracks near Gopalpur on the outskirts of the city. The girl had sustained deep injuries in both her thighs and the police found packets of rat kill and a train ticket from Cuttack to Bhubaneswar from her college bag that also contained her university identity card.
A brilliant student pursuing Economics Honours was staying in a university hostel and was reportedly upset on Thursday after her semester examination as she left a six-mark question unattended. She, however, obtained an “out pass” from the hostel superintendent to go for marketing in the evening, university sources said.
On the other hand, the girl’s father, who reached here from Rayagada in the morning, is unable to reconcile with the police claim that his daughter might have committed suicide. “I had talked to her twice over telephone on Thursday and she did not appear upset,” he said, adding that she might have been killed by her competitors with criminal mindset.