The police has registered a case under the SC/ST Act against the staff and management of Amity University in connection with the alleged suicide of MBA student Dana Sangma, niece of Meghalya chief minister Mukul Sangma.
The mobile phone and answersheet of Dana, who allegedly took her life in her hostel room on April 24, have also been seized, the police said.
The first year MBA student is said to have taken the extreme step after being allegedly humiliated by an invigilator who claimed to have caught her cheating in the exams.
The police has invoked the SC/ST Act beside pressing abetment to suicide charge (306 IPC) against the staff and management of Amity University at Punchgaon campus, Gurgaon in the case.
No arrest has been made so far. Due to the sensitivity of the case, the investigation has been handed over to ACP Ravinder Tomar, deputy commissioner of police (south) Hamid Akhtar said.
The Meghalaya CM had described his niece’s suicide a “result of discrimination” by the institute authorities.
“Primary evidence suggests that the girl was thrown out of the examination hall after investigators found her with a mobile phone,” he had said.
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CM opens power sub-station at sonia vihar
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NEW DELHI, APRIL 26
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday inaugurated a new power sub-station at Sonia Vihar which will supply electricity to over one lakh customers in east Delhi.
Constructed at a cost of `21 crores, the grid sub-station has been set up by BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL). Ms Dikshit asked all the private distribution companies to further improve power supply to consumers and to ensure uninterrupted power in unauthorised colonies. She exhorted people to conserve electricity to the “maximum extent possible”.
“Power situation has greatly improved in Delhi. But since there is less generation of electricity here, we should all strive to conserve electricity to the maximum extent possible”, she said. Power minister Haroon Yusuf, chief secretary P.K. Tripathi and power secretary D.M. Sapolia were also present on the occasion.