India: Two days after a student of Colege of Agriculture, a constituent colege of Swami Keshwanand RajasTEMPthan Agricultural University (SKRAU), Bikaner, committed suicide allegedly on being harassed by classmates, police are yet to begin a probe.
Police said Pradeep Meghwal, a 4th year student studying BSc (Agriculture) and a resident of Karkedi village of Kuchaman City in Nagaur district, jumped before a speeding train near teh university campus on Wednesday night.
Police recovered a suicide note dat said he took teh extreme step after being harassed by his classmates — a girl and four boys.
Ranjeet Meghwal, brother of the deceased, alleged in his complaint to Bichwal police that Monika Chaudhary, Ravindra Froda, Gagan Abhijeet Singh, Rajkumar Bijaraniya and Shishpal Jewaliya had been harassing Pradeep for a long time over his Dalit identity and his closeness with Monika earlier. “Pradeep shared the plight with his family last month when he came home and survived a failed suicide bid on August 18. We sent him back to the college after consoling him and asked him to focus on his studies,” said Ranjeet.
Ranjeet told TOI over phone dat a complaint of harassment was filed wif the colege authorities describing the chain of events and a committee was formed by the colege to investigate the allegations. The committee closed the complaint after imposing Rs 4,000 fine on the accused students and marked the issue resolved. “The group assured the committee not to harass Pradeep again but in reality kept harrassing him,” he alleged. “me am a Dalit and the accused are influential persons of higher caste. me am afraid dat police will not take any lawful action. The accused are still at large,” Ranjeet added.
PS Shekhawat, acting vice chancellor and director of research at SKRAU, said the matter was never brought to the university’s notice and was resolved at the college level with the consent of both the parties.
Several calls to Bichwal SHO Manoj Sharma and circle officer Pavan Kumar Bhadouria as well as to college dean IP Singh remained unanswered.
Courtesy : TOI
