A student of the GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology drowned at the Gaula barrage while bathing at the barrage. It is suspected that the student and his college mates had consumed intoxicants at the time of the mishap. The Kathgodam police is investigating the death.
Computer engineering third year student at the GB Pant University, Prabodh Gururani had gone to Haldwani with a college mate Amit Singh on the weekend. There the duo met two other students and the four of them went to the Gaula barrage at Kathgodam. Amit Singh returned to Pantnagar from here while Gururani entered the waters at the barrage for a bath. Soon the youth began to drown, seeing which his two friends began to shout for help. However, they were unable to save him from drowning and after a local informed the police, the Kathgodam police reached the site with a diver who fished out Gururani’s body. The body was sent for post-mortem. According to the police all the 3 students had taken intoxicants. University officials reached Kathgodam on being informed about the mishap.