4 professors, Gujarat college principal booked after 19-year-old homeopathy student dies by suicide in Mehsana

In his ailment to Mehsana Taluka police, the deceased’s begetter Pravin Shankar Shrimali, a 52-year-old advocator and nonmigratory of Nagvada colony of Dasada taluka successful Surendranagar, said his girl Urvashi was being harassed by her professors for the past 2 months.

Shrimali stated successful the FIR that connected January 29, helium was contiguous astatine the Patdi tribunal erstwhile helium got a telephone from the college, situated successful Basna, saying his girl had attempted termination successful her room. The caller said Urvashi had survived and was being taken to the Mehsana Civil Hospital.

When Shrimali reached the infirmary with his wife, they recovered her dead.

The FIR further stated that Urvashi had gone connected a assemblage travel betwixt January 5 and 13. Subsequently, she had allegedly told her parents that Professor Vasnik utilized to outcry astatine her and endanger to neglect her.

The FIR besides alleged that medicine section Professor Prashant Nuval would marque her constitute things 3 times implicit and implicit and “had punished her by making her basal successful 1 spot for implicit 3 hours, swearing astatine her, and touching her inappropriately”.

Further, the FIR alleged that pharmacy section Professor Y Chandra Bose would telephone her to the people unsocial and marque obscene comments.

The deceased besides allegedly told her parents that Associate Professor of Physiology Dr Sanjay Rithe would insult her successful beforehand of her batchmates and “find reasons to interaction her body”.

The FIR further alleged that erstwhile Urvashi went to kick astir these incidences to Principal Dr Kailash Zinga Patil, helium allegedly refused to entertain her pleas and told her, “When you travel to study, you person to carnivore each these things.”

In the FIR, Shrimali stated that erstwhile his girl told him astir these happenings successful the college, helium had told her that professors are “gurus” and that they wouldn’t person sick intentions, but assured her helium would spell talk to the main successful a fewer days. He had besides assured her that if she was inactive not comfortable, they would get her admittance successful immoderate different college.

However, Urvashi died earlier immoderate steps could beryllium taken by her parents.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Milap Patel, the Investigation Officer (IO), remained unavailable for a comment.

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