A suicidal case that occurred in Sharda University in Greater Noida has triggered mass gridlocks and censure because a 20-year-old student took her life by hanging herself in her hostel room on July 18. A Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) student was found hanged, and police and the university administration have swung into action. But all this went awry as family members of the student and other colleagues in the same classroom claimed that the staff members of the learning institution had been mentally tormenting them as well as being negligent to the extent that they forced the student to commit the heinous act.
The family of the victim argues that the ordeal started a week earlier to her death when a professor accused her of forging her signatures in the assignments and the laboratory work. Her brother explained to the news agency that their dad had once dropped in to the campus and talked to the professor and the Head of Department (HOD) earlier in the week. “But things are said to have only got worse. Her batch mates told that she had been humiliated before the class. The faculty members termed her a forgery expert and faced the threat of failing her. Then we lost touch,” he said. The family thinks that the emotional trauma of this public shaming caused her to commit suicide.
A crisis erupted on the campus with the students of the university and the family of the victim holding a protest, seeking justice. The police are reported to have lathi-charged during the demonstration, further infuriating the people. The mother of the victim, Sunita, spent the whole night on campus averting to budge until all was found well. “I would like CM Yogi and PM Modi to listen to me. I cannot go away. They are able to do as they please, but I want justice for my daughter, she said, sitting in silent protest.”
On the complaint, an FIR was lodged by police against 5 members of staff of the university under the relevant provisions. Two are under police custody. Officials said they have ordered the university to implement measures that would avert such cases in future.
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