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Bilaspur SHO has informed reporters that initial inquiries indicate Bhumika had been experiencing stress related to her studies.
Officials revealed that the student’s body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room. (Representative Image/File)
A 23-year-old BTech student was found dead on Tuesday in her hostel room at a private university in Gurugram’s Sidhrawali. The deceased, Bhumika Gupta, was a third-year engineering student from Alwar, Rajasthan. According to the police, her body was discovered hanging from the ceiling fan.
Police teams from Bilaspur police station, along with forensic experts, arrived at the scene and conducted a thorough examination before taking the body for post-mortem. According to media reports, the Bilaspur SHO informed that initial inquiries suggest Bhumika had been experiencing stress related to her studies. Although she performed satisfactorily in her first two semesters, police sources noted she seemed increasingly troubled after starting her third year.
Bhumika’s maternal uncle alleged that the condition in which she was found hanging raises suspicion that it was not suicide, but murder. Her legs were bent up to 4 inches and the soles of her feet were touching the floor. He demanded an impartial investigation into the case, reported Bhaskar English.
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Investigators have interviewed some of her classmates to gather more insights into her state of mind and potential reasons for the suspected suicide.
Police are treating the case as a suspicious death, noting that no definitive motive has been established yet, the report added.
According to a report published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), student suicides accounted for 7.6 percent of all suicide cases reported in India in 2022. This marks a small drop from 8.0 per cent in 2021 and 8.2 per cent in 2020, according to official data shared in the Lok Sabha.
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