A 23-year-old Delhi University student, grandson of a retired IAS officer, collapsed and died on the premises of the Department of Social Work, Delhi University while attending a fresher’s party on Monday evening.
The incident came to light on Monday night when hospital authorities informed the police. The body was sent for post-mortem and investigators are awaiting the report to ascertain exact cause of death. Investigators are questioning students present at the party and trying to find out whether they consumed drugs or sedatives.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that after dinner, the students were dancing when the deceased, identified as Himanshu Kumar Nirwan, suddenly felt restlessness and fell down. He was rushed to hospital in an unconscious condition where doctors declared him brought dead on arrival.
Police said Nirwan, lived with his parents in DDA Flats in Munirka area and he was a first year student at the Department of Social Work. His grandfather was posted with the Railway Ministry and his mother is a teacher at a convent school in South Delhi.
“The incident came to light when Bara Hindu Rao Hospital authorities informed the police at 11 pm,” a senior police officer said. Police and the crime and forensic team rushed to the spot and started recording statements of the victim’s friends. Preliminary findings have suggested that there were no injury marks on the body.
“Investigators are questioning all the students, those present at the party and they are trying to ascertain whether he died after consuming an overdose of some drug or sedative or was it a natural death,” police sources said.