08-Jan-2024 07:36 PM
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New Delhi, Jan 8 (Reporter) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday issued a notice to Telangana Police over the reported suicide of an Engineering girl student at her college in Rangareddy district.
In its notice to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police of Telangana, the commission sought a detailed report on the matter within four weeks.
The report should also include the outcome of the police investigation and inquiry conducted by the college administration, the action taken against the persons found responsible for the incident, and steps taken or proposed to be taken to ensure that such painful incidents do not recur, the commission said.
The media, on January 6, reported that an Engineering girl student committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of her college in Rangareddy district of Telangana on 5 January 2024.
According to the media report, the eyewitnesses said that the victim took the extreme step even as her fellow students screamed at her to stop. She was rushed to a private hospital in Isnapur by the students and college management, where the doctors pronounced her “brought dead”, the commission said...////...