A third-year undergraduate female student of Jadavpur University (JU) was declared dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital in unconscious state on Thursday night, news agency PTI reported, citing a senior university official.
The student from the English department was found in an unconscious state on the side of a water body in the campus. As per the report, she was chatting with her classmates there in the evening, another university official told PTI, adding that the circumstances behind the incident were not clear.
The student was rushed to a nearby private medical college and hospital by her friends and other varsity staff but declared dead on arrival, the official was quoted by PTI as saying. The university authorities did not divulge the name of the student.
Senior university officials and other faculty members and members of Arts Faculty Students' Union went to the hospital. The university authorities informed the Jadavpur police station and policemen went to the hospital.
The incident comes two years after the death of a first-year Bengali honours student in the boys hostel after falling from a balcony following ragging by his seniors. The incident triggered an uproar and led to arrests of several students.
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