2nd-year MBBS student commits suicide by jumping from hostel roof

Jaipur: In a tragic incident, an MBBS student committed suicide by jumping from the hostel roof at BR Ambedkar Medical College in Udaipur. The deceased student has been identified as a second-year MBBS student.

According to IANS report, Students informed the police that the medico was studying till 2:30 in the night in his room. Officials said that he jumped around three o'clock from the sixth floor of the hostel.

Speaking to IANS, a police official said that they have taken the body in its custody and kept it in the mortuary of the district hospital.

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Police further informed that the student's mobile, jacket and slippers were found on the sixth floor.

The police further informed IANS that examinations are going on in the medical college and concerned medico's paper did not go well two days back. He had also shared about the paper with his friends.

The DSP said that on receiving the information of the incident, he reached the hospital. The body has been kept in the trauma centre.

“Medical college principal Dr Shravan Kumar Meena has given a report. We are awaiting the report of the family members. Further action will be initiated after the report comes,” the DSP said.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that final-year medical student of Meenakshi Medical College in Kanchipuram allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of her hostel building. The 23-year-old student, also a trainee doctor at the institute was reportedly suffering from depression due to relationship issues with a fellow medical student. 

According to the police, the student started their relationship in the first year but gradually stopped talking and separated in their third year. This caused her extreme mental and emotional distress.

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