The state government on Friday set up a high-level four member committee to probe the suicide committed by a girl student of Dr Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation University.
The committee headed by Dr Sheffali Yadav will have Dr Anamika Chaudhry (Associate Professor), Prof Rajiv Nayan Pandey (Dean) and Prof Vinod Kumar Singh (Advocate, Students Welfare) as its members.
Vice-chancellor Pravir Kumar has asked the committee to submit its report within a week’s time.
In a statement issued in lucknow on Friday, Kumar said that the committee would identify the laxity of officials and employees so that in future, such incidents were not repeated.
On Thursday, girl student Parul Gupta of Deoria was found dead inside her hostel room. Some inmates of the hostel found the door of Parul’s room bolted from inside and informed the warden. As the staff broke open the door, she was found hanging. She was later rushed to a hospital but she died on the way.
After t he incident, hostel inmates assembled on the varsity campus and raised slogans against the university administration alleging that the girl was under pressure due to tight schedule.