RG Kar MBBS Student Found Hanging In Hospital Quarters, Cops Suspect Suicide Due To Depression; Probe On

The victim was alone in her room and was found hanging from the ceiling on Friday night. Police have registered a case of unnatural death and launched an investigation into the matter.

An RG Kar MMBS student was found hanging in her hostel room on Friday night.

Source : X@TMMAOfficial

A 20-year-old second-year student pursuing MBBS at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, was found hanging in her room at the the Kamarhati ESI Hospital quarters.

The student's mother, a doctor, reportedly worked at the Kamarhati ESI Hospital, and the victim lived in one of the hospital quarters. Her father worked as a senior bank official in Mumbai, Times Of India reported.

Police said the victim, Ivy Prasad, was alone in her room and was found hanging from the ceiling on Friday night (January 31).

A senior police officer of the Barrackpore Commissionerate told TOI that the victim was not responding to her mother's repeated phone calls, following which her concerned mother had to force open the door, only to find her daughter hanging from the ceiling on Friday night.

She was then rushed to the hospital, but was declared dead. No suicide note was found from her room. The police have registered a case of unnatural death and launched an investigation into the matter. The Kamarhati police sent her body for a post-mortem at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, TOI reported.

The RG Kar officials revealed that Prasad usually stayed quiet. Police officials suspect she may have been suffering from depression.

The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital made national headlines in August last year when a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor was found dead in the hospital. Later it came to the fore that she had been raped and murdered at the campus, which sparked massive outrage and widespread nationwide protests.

A civic volunteer named Sanjoy Roy was arrested and was recently convicted to life imprisonment in connection with the case. He was not given death penalty as the judge did not find the crime to be "rarest of the rare". A fine of Rs 50,000 was also imposed on the accused by the Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das in Sealdah. However, Roy has claimed that he did not do anything and was being "falsely implicated".