The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has issued notice to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, Government of Telangana over the reported suicide of an Engineering girl student in Rangareddy district on January 5.
The Commission took suo motu cognizance of a media report, which said that an Engineering girl student had committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of her college in Rangareddy district. The victim had reportedly joined the college just three months ago and was commuting daily by the college bus from her residence in Kukatpally.
Noting that the contents of the news report, if true, raised a serious issue of violation of human rights, which was a matter of concern, the rights body directed both the Telangana Chief Secretary and State DGP to file a detailed report in the matter within four weeks.
The officials were directed to include in the report, the outcome of police investigation and inquiry conducted by the college administration, action taken against the persons found responsible for the incident, and steps taken or proposed to be taken to ensure that such painful incidents did not recur in future.
According to the media report carried on January 6, 2024, 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’.