UP: Medical student's body found hanging inside hostel
The mother of the deceased has claimed that her son was murdered, and urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to order a CBI probe.
Press Trust of India | August 22, 2022 | 08:41 AM IST
Etawah: The body of a medical student was found hanging from a ceiling fan inside the hostel of Saifai Medical College here, police said on Sunday. The family members of the deceased have alleged it to be a case of murder.
Superintendent of Police (rural) Satyapal Singh told reporters that late on Saturday night, body of Himanshu Gupta (19), a first-year MBBS student was found hanging from a fan using a bedsheet in Shakyamuni Hostel. The deceased is a resident of Gorakhpur, police said.
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Police have sent the body for post-mortem examination. The mother of the deceased has claimed that her son was murdered, and urged Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to order a CBI probe.
She has also claimed that there were some injury marks on Himanshu's body. The Samajwadi Party in a tweet termed the incident as "extremely saddening", and demanded the state government provide financial assistance of Rs 1 crore to the family of the deceased.
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