Dalit IIT-Roorkee student 'falls' from building, dies
D S Kunwar, TNN, Feb 8, 2011, 05.33am IST
DEHRADUN: A third-year dalit student of IIT-Roorkee died after he
reportedly fell from the fifth floor of his hostel in Uttarakhand's
Hardwar district on Sunday evening.
Police said 21-year-old Manish Kumar, BTech (computer science)
student, returned to his room in Radhakrishan hostel at the IIT campus
after attending tutorials around 5.30pm. Later in the evening, other
students rushed out of their rooms after hearing a loud sound and
found Manish was lying in a pool of blood, the police said. Manish —
who was from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh — was immediately rushed
to hospital where he was declared dead.
Roorkee superintendent of police Roshan Lal Sharma told TOI that
IIT-Roorkee security officer K P Singh informed cops about the
incident and a team was immediately sent to the IIT-Roorkee campus.
"Preliminary investigations reveal that the victim committed suicide
by jumping from the fifth floor of the hostel. He was mentally
unstable. We are yet to ascertain the exact cause of the death and are
waiting for the post-mortem report," Sharma said.
Manish's father, retired soldier Rajendra Kumar, accused IIT-Roorkee
authorities of harassing his son because he was a dalit.
Sharma said senior administrative officials and faculty members in the
IIT campus told the police that Manish had been undergoing treatment
in the Roorkee Army Hospital.
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