• Source:JND

In yet another case of rising student suicide cases, a first-year MBBS student took his life in the premises of the government medical college in Chhattisgarh. In his last message to his family, the deceased wrote that he could not do it.

According to the police, the incident took place in the hostel room of the Government Medical College in Chhattisgarh's Korba city on Saturday. A suicide note was found at the spot, claimed to be written by him. The note read, “Mujhse nahi ho paya, I am sorry, papa (I couldn't do it, I am sorry, papa)", the police added.

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The student is identified as Himanshu Kashyap, 24, who was found dead in his hostel room of the college within the jurisdiction of the Civil Lines police station, City Superintendent of Police Bhushan Ekka said.

It was further informed that Kashyap’s friends found his room locked from the inside as they rushed to his hostel room when he did not appear for examination in the morning.

After repeated attempts to open it failed, they broke the door and discovered him lifeless.
The police reached the spot and sent the body for a post-mortem. A suicide note was also recovered from the room, Ekka added.

An accident death report has been registered and the invetigators are probing the case, police said. Kshayap had failed his first-year exam and was reappearing this year.

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The Dean of the college, KK Sahare, said, “It appears he took the extreme step due to the pressure of not performing well in the exams.”

 

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