IMBATORE: Tension prevailed at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday when the body of a nursing student, who died after falling off a hostel building on Monday night, was brought for a postmortem.
The body Priscilla Jessy, a third year student pursuing BSc Nursing at Royal College of Nursing in Madukkarai, was brought to the hospital around 11.30 for postmortem.
The girl's family gathered at the hospital claiming that "there was foul play" in the girl's death and said it was "a case of murder."
The girl was found dead in front of her hostel building at around 10pm on Monday.
"The college authorities once said that she tripped and fell to her death while putting her clothes to dry on the terrace," said her father, M Yesudas, a truck service manager. "Then suddenly police and college authorities are considering and discussing that it might be a suicide. I want justice," he said.
Priscilla's relatives said she had had issues with her classmates and hostel mates recently. "The third year students began ragging the second year students a lot because a second year student broke a third year student's bucket," said her sister Blessy Monisha, a first year nursing student at the same college.
"But because my sister had a close friend in the second year and was nice to her friends, some of her classmates began taunting her," she said. "Recently when they found her chatting and sitting with them, her classmates even assaulted her," she added.
Yesudas said her daughter had complained to him about the incident and that her attackers insulted her.
"I met my sister on Monday at 4.30pm after college and she agreed to take me to the doctor at around 8 pm because I had fever," said Monisha.
"She did not look or sound like she was upset or depressed," she said. "I did not get a call from her. But suddenly at 11pm my college authorities woke me up and rushed me to a nearby hospital claiming that my sister fainted and fell and my parents were yet to arrive to take care of her," said Monisha.
"The place where she fell is on the opposite side of where the clothes line is put up on the terrace and the terrace itself has a four-foot high parapet wall," she said.
The body Priscilla Jessy, a third year student pursuing BSc Nursing at Royal College of Nursing in Madukkarai, was brought to the hospital around 11.30 for postmortem.
The girl's family gathered at the hospital claiming that "there was foul play" in the girl's death and said it was "a case of murder."
The girl was found dead in front of her hostel building at around 10pm on Monday.
"The college authorities once said that she tripped and fell to her death while putting her clothes to dry on the terrace," said her father, M Yesudas, a truck service manager. "Then suddenly police and college authorities are considering and discussing that it might be a suicide. I want justice," he said.
Priscilla's relatives said she had had issues with her classmates and hostel mates recently. "The third year students began ragging the second year students a lot because a second year student broke a third year student's bucket," said her sister Blessy Monisha, a first year nursing student at the same college.
"But because my sister had a close friend in the second year and was nice to her friends, some of her classmates began taunting her," she said. "Recently when they found her chatting and sitting with them, her classmates even assaulted her," she added.
Yesudas said her daughter had complained to him about the incident and that her attackers insulted her.
"I met my sister on Monday at 4.30pm after college and she agreed to take me to the doctor at around 8 pm because I had fever," said Monisha.
"She did not look or sound like she was upset or depressed," she said. "I did not get a call from her. But suddenly at 11pm my college authorities woke me up and rushed me to a nearby hospital claiming that my sister fainted and fell and my parents were yet to arrive to take care of her," said Monisha.
"The place where she fell is on the opposite side of where the clothes line is put up on the terrace and the terrace itself has a four-foot high parapet wall," she said.
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