3 in trouble for abetting nursing student’s suicide

Our Correspondent

Abohar, June 20

The Government Railway Police here have booked a senior executive and two staff members of a private nursing college on the Sriganganagar-Suratgarh road in a suicide case. A 22-year-old female student committed suicide by jumping from a train at the Killianwali level crossing, 8 km from the Abohar station.

The GRP here today said Gaurav Sethi, senior executive of the SN College of Nursing, staff Manpreet Kaur and Ajay Kumar have been booked under Sections 306/34 of the IPC on the basis of a statement given by Sadulshehar resident Naina Devi, mother of deceased Kusum Aggarwal, who had blamed some persons in the suicide note. The college is affiliated to Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS).

The GRP got the autopsy done at the Civil Hospital here yesterday and handed over the body to Kusum’s parents.

She had sent WhatsApp messages to her mother on Tuesday at 10 pm before taking the extreme action. The messages spoke the agony that Kusum had to bear due to alleged harassment in the college.

Her father Jagdish Aggarwal said Kusum returned to the college after two-week summer break on June 13. She informed her mother on June 15 over phone that she was facing harassment at the hands of the hostel management without any valid reason. She and other students were allegedly not provided food and pulled by warden when protested.

In her last WhatsApp message, Kusum urged her parents to never forgive the college hostel officials, who abetted her to commit suicide. “They were threatening to rusticate me from the college when they protested over denying food,” Kusum had said. Refuting the allegations, Sethi claimed, “She left the hostel on June 15 without giving any reason.”