JNU MPhil student suicide: Father of deceased demands CBI probe

New Delhi, March 13: The father of the deceased JNU scholar J. Muthukrishnan has demanded a CBI probe into the events leading to the death of his son. Also, he called his son's death as a 'murder'.

The 27-year-old Ph.D student allegedly committed suicide in south Delhi's Munirka Vihar on Monday evening. The student from Tamil Nadu was found hanging from a ceiling fan inside his friend's house.

The incident took place on Monday evening, and the police have said that the student Muthukrishnan killed himself over personal reasons, after discovering a post which his friends shared, stating that he was discriminated in MPhil and PhD admissions.

While police said he was depressed over personal issues, his friends shared his Facebook post in which he had alleged discrimination in MPhil and PhD admissions.

He is said to have been depressed for sometime over some personal issues, he added. A PCR call was received at 5.05 PM today that a person had locked himself in a room at a house in Munirka Vihar, said a senior police officer.

On reaching the spot, police forced open the door as a portion of the latch was uprooted from inside, he said. A young man was found hanging from the ceiling fan. The crime team was called at the spot and the scene was inspected and photographed.

"He had come to his friends' house this afternoon to have food. He said he wanted to sleep and went to a room and locked himself inside. "Later his friends called him out and on getting no response, they called the police," he said.

PTI