In
a suspected hate crime, a Hindu medical student belonging to Ghotki, Sindh was found dead in her hostle
room with a rope tied to her neck while her room was locked from inside. Namrita, a final year student of Dental
College was found dead in her hostel room. Local police said it was too early
to say whether she had committed suicide or murdered.
However,
her family has alleged that Chandani was killed because she was a minority. Speaking
to media, her brother alleged that she had been murdered.
He
said that while his sister was wearing a dupatta, the marks around her neck
resembled that of a cable wire.
"There are marks on
other parts of her body too like a person was holding her. We are a minority,
please stand up for us," he said.
The
body was shifted to the district headquarter hospital for postmortem, but the
police awaited her parents to arrive from Karachi for their consent.
Nimrata was discovered
when her colleagues knocked at her room's door and grew worried when she did
not respond for several minutes.
They somehow managed to
look inside the room from the crevice in the door.
"She was neither
responding to the knocking at the door nor to our shouting," her friend
told the police.
The hostel's watchman
later broke open the door, only to find the student lying dead.
Larkana DIG Irfan Ali
Baloch has given the incident's inquiry to SSP Masood Ahmed Bangash.
The vice-chancellor of the
medical college Anila Attaur Rehman said the incident appeared to be one of
suicide but the police and the medico-legal report will be able to ascertain
the actual cause of death after the postmortem.
In a similar incident, a
student of Sindh University, Naila Rind, was found dead from her hostel room on
January 1, 2017. Her body was found hanging from the ceiling fan.
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