<p>A 20-year-old medical student of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was found dead inside her room at the Kamarhati ESI Hospital quarters on Friday, January 31, 2025.</p><p>This comes just about 6 months after the city of <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/kolkata">Kolkata</a>, along with the entire nation was shaken to its core when a young, on-duty post-graduate trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. Her disfigured and mutilated body was found in a seminar hall on the third floor of the hospital on August 9, 2024, that triggered mass outrage and protests not only in West Bengal, but also across the country.</p><p>According to a <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rg-kar-student-found-dead-at-her-moms-official-home/articleshow/117871481.cms">report</a> by the <em>Times of India, </em>the deceased student, named Ivy Prasad, was a second-year MBBS student at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. She was reportedly staying at the Kamarhati ESI Hospital quarters, which is located in the outskirts of Kolkata, because her mother is currently employed as a doctor at the same hospital. Ivy's father, on the other hand, works as a senior bank employee in Mumbai.</p>.R G Kar rape-murder case: Victim’s parents not in favour of death sentence for convict Sanjay Roy, claims counsel.<p>"Despite repeated calls, there was no response from her. Eventually, her mother broke open the door," a senior police officer of the Barrackpore commissionerate told <em>TOI</em>.</p><p>After her body was discovered, she was immediately taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead by the medical staff.</p><p>Ivy was generally of a quiet and reserved demeanour, according to the staff of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. Police authorities suspect that she might have been suffering from depression for some time.</p><p>However, cops did not find any suicide not from her residence.</p><p>A police inquiry has been initiated under an unnatural death case, and her body has been sent for post-mortem.</p>
<p>A 20-year-old medical student of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was found dead inside her room at the Kamarhati ESI Hospital quarters on Friday, January 31, 2025.</p><p>This comes just about 6 months after the city of <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/kolkata">Kolkata</a>, along with the entire nation was shaken to its core when a young, on-duty post-graduate trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. Her disfigured and mutilated body was found in a seminar hall on the third floor of the hospital on August 9, 2024, that triggered mass outrage and protests not only in West Bengal, but also across the country.</p><p>According to a <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rg-kar-student-found-dead-at-her-moms-official-home/articleshow/117871481.cms">report</a> by the <em>Times of India, </em>the deceased student, named Ivy Prasad, was a second-year MBBS student at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. She was reportedly staying at the Kamarhati ESI Hospital quarters, which is located in the outskirts of Kolkata, because her mother is currently employed as a doctor at the same hospital. Ivy's father, on the other hand, works as a senior bank employee in Mumbai.</p>.R G Kar rape-murder case: Victim’s parents not in favour of death sentence for convict Sanjay Roy, claims counsel.<p>"Despite repeated calls, there was no response from her. Eventually, her mother broke open the door," a senior police officer of the Barrackpore commissionerate told <em>TOI</em>.</p><p>After her body was discovered, she was immediately taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead by the medical staff.</p><p>Ivy was generally of a quiet and reserved demeanour, according to the staff of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. Police authorities suspect that she might have been suffering from depression for some time.</p><p>However, cops did not find any suicide not from her residence.</p><p>A police inquiry has been initiated under an unnatural death case, and her body has been sent for post-mortem.</p>
