With the recovery of hanging body of 9th semester MBBS student
in Agartala Govt Medical College Adarsha De (23) on Monday evening at his hostel room,
father of the deceased claimed that his son was murdered and demanded immediate
action against the perpetrators.
However, police has started investigation into case believing it’s a suicide and recorded
the statement of a few of the classmates and hostel staff.
According to report, Adarsha was involved in share trading and he became depressed
after sudden down fall of stock market recently following detection of new strain of
coronavirus.
Police came to know during investigation that bypassing parents eyes Adarsha invested
a large amount of money in share market and now it crashed down, which put him into
serious trouble. From facebook police got to know that he was a professional Forex trader,
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) marketer and he had expertise on Binary Options.
After visiting the deceased family, MLA of the area and Deputy Leader of the opposition
Badal Chowdhury also claimed that the incident had happened in a mysterious
circumstance and demanded high level investigation into the death.
The father of the deceased Ashok De alleged that there were no signs of hanging as the
hospital authorities were trying to establish.
“Had he hanged himself as to how could be found lying on a bed when we reached here.
And, if he had hanged himself, there were no rights for anyone to bring the deceased down.
Only the police in the presence of the family have the right to recover the body. Moreover,
I was told over phone that Adarsha had met with an accident but when I reached here, we
heard a different story,” De told media.
Meanwhile, college authority has also admitted that Adarsha’s peers had found him
hanging inside the room and they brought him to the hospital to save his life but failed
ultimately even after all out efforts.
Adarsha hailed from Belonia in South Tripura and was topper in higher secondary
exam of Tripura board in 2016.