On Sunday afternoon, Arpan Ghosh, an engineering student at NIT Durgapur, was discovered hanging inside his dorm room.
The murder of a second-year mechanical engineering student Arpan Ghosh prompted many students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur to stage protests on the campus grounds. The students want the director of NIT Durgapur to resign.
According to the institute’s director, Arvind Choubey, there has been a suicide and the police are looking into it.
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He said, “A suicide case happened, and the Police are conducting the investigation upon the case.”
21-year-old Arpan Ghosh was studying at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur and was in the second year doing his B.Tech. He was discovered hanging inside his hostel room.
Arpan was a second year BTech mechanical engineering and a resident of Bandel in Hooghly was found hanging inside the hostel in the NIT campus in Gandhi More of Durgapur on Sunday.
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Following his death, there was a outcry in which other students claimed that Arpan Ghosh’s suicide was a direct result of the stress of his coursework. Students often voice complaints about the poor quality of medical facilities on campus, notably the lack of an ambulance.
Students claimed that because Arpan failed to present his admit card so he was not allowed to take the exam. After that, Arpan went to his room and his body was found. Students also claimed that Arpan was alive during his recovery, but his delayed treatment by a number of formalities and an oxygen cylinder shortage in the ambulance led to his death.
On Monday, Ghosh’s post-mortem was conducted at the Asansol district hospital in front of his parents, other family members, NIT Durgapur employees, and officials. The reports are yet to be announced.
Arvind Choubey’s resignation
Arvind Choubey signed a “resignation letter” in response to pressure from the students who were staging a demonstration and mailed it to the Union Ministry of Education. Whether the ministry has accepted his resignation or not, is not known.
He said, “I didn’t resign by choice. I have not resigned officially.”
About 2,000 students protested by yelling slogans so Arvind resigned out of fear. The students took off his name plate from the door. The letter was drafted by the students, and he was made to sign it before it was delivered to the ministry.