26-year-old D Preethi tried suicide on Wednesday.
Hyderabad:
A primary-year postgraduate medical scholar died in Hyderabad on Sunday night time, 4 days after she allegedly tried suicide.
26-year-old D Preethi tried suicide allegedly by a self-administered injections after being harassed by her senior at Kakatiya Medical College, police mentioned.
She was discovered unconscious after working the night time shift at MGM Hospital and moved to Hyderabad in a vital situation.
“She was final seen on the emergency OP whereas she was on obligation and later, she left her room informing different docs that she was experiencing a headache and abdomen ache. She was later present in an unconscious state,” Warangal police commissioner AV Ranganath mentioned.
On her father’s grievance, Mohammed Ali Saif, a second-year post-graduate scholar, was arrested by the police on fees of ragging, abetment to suicide and harassment underneath the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Anti-Ragging Act.
The police commissioner instructed NDTV that the WhatsApp chats on the sufferer’s and the accused’s telephones steered ragging. “Further investigation shall be performed as soon as the toxicology report is available in,” he mentioned.
The scholar’s father Narender mentioned they’d complained in opposition to the senior scholar to the faculty and hospital authorities however no motion was taken.
The sufferer’s household refused to permit the physique to be moved from NIMS, Hyderabad for autopsy after which to their native village for final rites.
Several lambada tribal unions additionally protested in entrance of NIMS at Hyderabad, Kakatiya Medical College and MGM Hospital at Warangal.
The National Human Rights Commission and National Commission for SC / ST has taken cognisance and issued notices to the federal government, superintendent of MGM Hospital, principal and head of division of anaesthesiology the place Preethi was a scholar.
Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan had visited Preethi in hospital. A compensation of Rs 10 lakh has been introduced for the household.