In a distressing development, the wife of a PhD student jumped off the JNU roof to death under mysterious circumstances. While a probe has been kicked off, what makes the death mysterious is the fact that the wife left no suicide note, nor there were any reports of disputes between the JNU student and her.

Details

Trigger Warning: Suicide

The New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is famous and infamous at the same time. While the university is well known for having an alumnus which comprises of Nirmala Sitharaman, S. Jaishankar & Abhijeet Banerjee, it’s also infamous for its campus violence and student politics. As any major public university, the JNU too has had its fair share of tragedies occur in its campus. One such tragedy was reported today.


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The Facts of the Matter

On August 26, the JNU campus was shook after a 26-year-old woman allegedly threw herself off the hostel. According to an Indian Express report the woman was the wife of a PhD student and was found in the pool of her blood near the Brahmaputra hostel.

She was found lying injured outside the hostel by the security staff and nearby university students. Soon an ambulance was called by the university staff and she was taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, she succumbed to the injury in the hospital and passed away.

Incident Timeline

The Indian Express report quoted a JNU official saying, “The incident happened around 7 am. Security guards altered other authorities and an ambulance was called. She was immediately taken to a hospital. At the time of leaving for the hospital, she was alive. We don’t have more details than this right now.”

Delhi’s Deputy Commissioner of Police Ingit Pratap Singh was quoted saying, “We received information from the hospital about the woman. She was declared dead by the doctors in the morning. It is suspected that she died by suicide but the reason is unknown.”


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More Info About the Deceased Woman

Police confirmed that the woman had come to visit her PhD scholar husband who stayed at the above-mentioned Brahmaputra hostel. The woman had traveled to meet her husband just a day before her alleged suicide.

During the preliminary investigation, the police searched for any suicide note or relevant evidences, but the search as to no avail. On the preliminary inquiry the police did find out that the deceased had come to hostel to meet her husband after he had complained of not keeping well and was suffering from seizures.


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Husband Wasn’t Feeling Well, Called the Wife

DCP Ingit Singh said, “The man wasn’t feeling well and had called his wife. We don’t know what happened between them but the woman is said to have jumped off the second floor in the morning,” said DCP Singh.

In Other News

In another distressing development, the woman who had set herself on fire earlier last week with her friend right outside the Indian Supreme Court succumbed to her burn injuries and died on Tuesday, August 24. The man, who also set himself on fire with the woman, had earlier died on Sunday, August 22.

According to reports, the 24-year-old woman, was a Ghazipur-based student who had come to Delhi with the man with whom she was to later burn herself on August 16. After investigation, the police found that the woman had protested against not getting justice for her rape complaint against BSP MP Atul Rai.