Family seeks probe into engineering student’s death in Pathankot college

Shyam Sood

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Rajouri, November 14

A student from Rajouri district died under mysterious circumstances at Tawi Engineering College in Pathankot on Saturday.

The student has been identified as Aurangzeb, a resident of Naili village at Manjakot tehsil in Rajouri district. He was the final year student of Diploma in Civil Engineering at the college.

As his body reached his village today, family members, relatives and villagers took the body and placed it on the Jammu-Poonch highway, demanding an impartial probe into the incident.

They alleged that Aurangzeb was murdered and had not died after falling from the third floor as claimed by his hostel mates and the hostel warden.

After officiating Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Rajouri, Atul Sharma assured the protesters that he would contact the SSP, Pathankot, for an impartial investigation, the protesters dispersed after three hours.

Mohammad Shafayat, Aurangzeb’s cousin, who was with him in the hospital, said Aurangzeb’s colleagues had given different versions of his death to the police.

“Some students said he fell from the third floor during a scuffle between a few hostel inmates while others said that some students had locked his hostel room from outside and Aurangzeb used bathroom pipes to go to the ground floor to open the door and in the process he had a fall and got injured,” said Shafayat.

He further said: “Around 1 am on November 10, the hostel warden informed us about the incident and said Aurangzeb was admitted to a hospital.”

“We rushed to Pathankot, where Aurangzeb was admitted to a private hospital and was unconscious. On Friday evening, he regained consciousness and talked briefly to me and with his father,” said Shafayat.

Around 9 pm on Saturday, the staff on duty called me to the emergency ward and told me that Aurangzeb had died of cardiac arrest.

After completing the legal formalities and after recording the statements of Auranzeb’s colleagues and an autopsy, the Pathankot police handed over the body to the family on Sunday.