Harassed with the rampant ragging in RKDF Pharmacy College, a girl student of B. Pharma committed suicide by hanging at her Jeevan Vihar apartment residence under Kamla Nagar police station area late on Tuesday night.
According to the police, the 18-year-old victim Namrata Sharma was found hanging at her residence and was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead.
The elder sister of the victim Sarita Sharma spotted her sister after which she informed her brother. The police were informed and after the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem. Subsequently a case under section 174 of the CrPC was registered and the police have started further investigation. The victim was a second year student of B Pharma of RKDF College. At the time of the incident the parents of the victim were in Jaipur. The father of the victim works for a private company in Jaipur.
The Additional Superintendent of Police Zone 1 Dilip Singh Tomar told that four-page suicide note of the victim has been recovered from her residence. From the content of the suicide note, it has been found that she accused few senior students, both boys and girls and a lecturer of the same college responsible for her taking this extreme step.
Tomar told that although, he knew the names of the students and the lecturer, he would not reveal it unless their involvement is investigated properly.
The four page suicide note was recovered and in the note the victim has mentioned that she was continuously harassed by her college seniors and a lecturer. Apart from the names of senior girl students the victim has also mentioned names of senior boy students who were involved in teasing her in the name of ragging. In the long suicide note senior girls were alleged of pressurizing her for ‘doing wrong things’ but it is not clear that what kind of wrong things she was asked to do, told the police.
The police have started investigation into the matter and are going to quiz the seniors involved in harassing the victim and they have confirmed that if the seniors are found guilty a case of abetment to suicide would be registered told the police.