UP medical student death case: SC orders CBI probe as 2 Police wings differ in findings

It added, “In view of the fact that there appears to be a contradiction in the two reports filed by the two investigating agencies and also considering the nature of these cases, we are of the opinion that further investigation ought to be undertaken by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the two investigating agencies shall assist the CBI in this regard. On conclusion of investigation, the report shall be filed by the CBI before appropriate Court.”

The order of the top court came on a plea filed in 2018 by the father of the deceased MBBS student.

The first-year student was found hanging from the ceiling of her hostel room at Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences in Bareilly in 2017. Her two roommates had told the police that the Noida resident had been tense for the past two days and had not gone to college because of illness.

The father had sought a CBI probe saying that though the student’s death was made out to be a case of suicide, it was an unnatural death.

After the FIR was lodged, police submitted a charge sheet in connection with the complaint in which two persons were arraigned as accused. Later, the investigation was handed over to the crime investigation division CBCID – another investigating wing of the State police.

CBCID filed a closure report in the case.

The apex court sending the probe to CBI said that “there appears to be a contradiction in the two reports filed by the two investigating departments. 

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