Medical student found dead in BMCRI hostel

A 20-year-old MBBS student was found dead in his hostel room in central Bengaluru on Sunday. Before the alleged suicide, he had looked up the internet for ways to end life and how long it will take.

Naveen P, a second-year student at the premier Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his fifth-floor hostel room located on KR Road around 4.20 pm. He was the son of a senior officer in a cooperative bank in Raichur.

The death was discovered by one of his three roommates when he returned from the library.

The roommate found the door closed from the inside. After his repeated knocks didn’t yield a response, he peeped through the window and was horrified to find Naveen hanging. He alerted the hostel warden and fellow students. When they broke the door, Naveen was dead.

Stressed about exams?

The jurisdictional VV Puram police, who have taken up a case of unnatural death over the incident, believe Naveen ended his life 4 pm. While no death note has been found yet, it is suspected that the student was stressed and depressed about exams which began on Monday.

Every day, Naveen would go to the library with his roommates after lunch. But this time around, he told them he was going to study alone in the room and stayed back.

Before the alleged suicide, Naveen reportedly looked up the internet for more than 15 minutes on how to end one’s life and how long it takes, police say.

Neither Naveen’s family nor his roommates and classmates have alleged foul play or raised anything suspicious.

His body was handed over to a relative staying in Bengaluru after the post-mortem on Sunday night. The final rites were performed on Monday.