Odisha: First Year MBBS Student Dies After Falling From Hostel Roof, Family alleges ragging

Bhubaneswar: A first-year MBBS student of Bhima Bhoi Medical College and Hospital in Odisha's Bolangir district died after allegedly falling off the roof of the hostel, police said. 

The deceased student was identified as Nishant Kumar, a native of Haryana. He was a resident in the four-storied New Boys hostel, police said, adding that the incident took place at around 2 to 2.30 pm on Friday.

The student had taken admission in the Bhima Bhoi MCH a month back and was residing at the New Boys Hostel. He went to the hostel terrace after having lunch at around 2 pm on friday. After some time, hostel inmates got to know that he had fallen off the roof and sustained critical injuries. He was rushed to the hospital by the inmates,where doctors declared him brought dead.

The deceased student's relative alleged that he was subjected to ragging for which he committed suicide or somebody pushed him down.

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However, the medical college dean Sabita Mohapatra said: "We have formed a 10-member anti-ragging committee in the medical college. Every day a group of faculty visits the boys and girls hostel for monitoring the situation in hostel rooms of first-year students. I have never heard about ragging in the hostel." Police have started an investigation into the incident and searched the deceased student's room to ascertain any clue to his death.

Balangir SDPO Tofan Bag said police are investigating all possible angles in the case. The exact cause of death will be ascertained after the postmortem is conducted on Saturday. This is the second such case of death of medical student at BBMCH. Last year, a girl student of the college had allegedly died by suicide by hanging from the hostel window, reports TNIE.

Last year, a girl student had committed suicide in this medical college. The state-run medical college in Bolangir is only four-years-old.

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