The UT police have booked an Associate Professor, for abatement to suicide, after recovering a suicide note from the house of a dental college student of Panjab University who hanged herself in her house at Sector 32 on Friday.
Savita Parashar, associate professor at Dr Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, has been booked on the basis of a suicide note written by Ankurita Tripathi. Suicide note stated that Savita Parashar should be held responsible for her death, said Harminder Singh, additional SHO, PS Sector 34.
Meanwhile handwriting samples of the deceased were taken from her house and sent along with the suicide note to CFSl for further investigation, Harminder added. Sources said that Ankurita was under stress as she could not clear the exams in her four attempts and was admitted to the second-year of BDS on provisional basis. She committed suicide after she failed to clear the exam in her last attempt, on Friday.
Meanwhile father of deceased AC Tripathi claimed that she was intentionally being harassed by her faculty who declared her fail in a practical exam.
On Friday afternoon, Ankurita was found hanging with the ceiling of her residence at ITBP flats in Sector 32 by a neighbour. She was alone at home at the time of incident as her father AC Tripathi, a Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at ITBP had left for lucknow. The dead body of deceased was handed over to family on Saturday. A case under Section 306 of IPC has been registered against Savita Parashar, said Gurnam Singh, Investigation officer, PS Sector 34.
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