Bundelkhand University vice chancellor booked for abetment to suicide

JHANSI: The vice chancellor of Bundelkhand University, along with a professor, head warden and a hostel matron, have been booked on charges of abetment to suicide, in a case related to the death of a woman on varsity campus last year.

The FIR was lodged on the directives of chief judicial magistrate's court under section 156/3 CRPC on a complaint filed by the father of the deceased Jai Prakash, said SP (city) Gyanendra Kumar Singh.

Shristi Rai, a third-year BTech student, had allegedly committed suicide in Samta hostel on Jan 19, 2023. Her father, a Gorakhpur resident, had moved an application in the CJM court alleging harassment and negligence by the hostel staff that pushed her daughter to end life.

Victim’s father accuses senior officials of negligence

The complainant also accused the senior officials of showing negligence in handling the complaint related to her mysterious death. As per the complainant, his elder daughter Pooja had a talk with Shristi a night before she took the extreme step.

Pooja found her sister uneasy and stressed, and had called up the matron and the warden requesting them to be with Shristi for that night before she reached the university the next day to take her back. But the warden did not heed to her request, and the very next day early morning Shristi committed suicide.

A FIR has been lodged against VC Mukesh Pandey, HOD BTech department Zakir Ali, warden, Shipra Gupta and matron Suman under section 306 IPC (abetement to suicide) at Nawabad police station in Jhansi.


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