Jaipur: A 19-year-old B.Tech student from the North East, who was trying to hide from the warden after allegedly drinking with friends and entering into an argument with some others, died after trying to climb down from the third floor balcony of his hostel at a private university in Rajasthan’s Tonk district.
The student Haatma was injured on the intervening night of December 14-15 and was admitted to a private hospital in Jaipur and died on Saturday evening, SHO, Niwai, Ramavtar Singh Takhar said on Sunday.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju has taken “very serious” note of the incident and asked the “authorities and Rajasthan Police to conduct proper and speedy inquiry and submit a report”.
SP Tonk Priti Jain said that no suspicious activity was found in CCTV footage of that night.
“The student consumed liquor with four other students of northeast in the hostel room of one of the students on the night of December 14. After some time, the boys had heated argument with some other boys and started shouting. When the hostel warden came, all of them ran away from there to hide,” Jain said.
The boy, who died, entered the room of some other student in a hurry, which is visible in the CCTV footage. He hid in the balcony and was trying to get down from there through a pillar but slipped and fell down from the third-storey.
In the pandemonium on the campus of K N Modi University, no one heard his cries. When the situation got normal after some time, all the other students went to their respective rooms to sleep and Haatma was found lying in an unconscious state in the morning.
“We have collected all the evidence and the statements of other students who were drinking with him have been recorded. His family members gave us a complaint which is being examined,” she said.
The family members along with leaders of some students union of North East arrived in Tonk on Saturday and have been shown the CCTV footage and other evidence.
“We have seen the CCTV footage and also showed it to his family members to clear their doubts on the sequence of events leading to his death,” the SHP said. Arrangements are being made to send the student’s body to his native place. (PTI)
