[Reader-list] Caste bias: Medico ends life in Punjab

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Caste bias: Medico ends life in Punjab

29 Jan 2008, 0417 hrs IST,TNN

CHANDIGARH: A fourth year student of MBBS at Government Medical
College and Hospital in Chandigarh committed suicide in the hospital
premises on Sunday after he was allegedly harassed by two classmates
and a teacher.

The body of 23-year-old, a resident of Sector 41, Chandigarh, was
found hanging in the hospital's library toilet.

He left a suicide note accusing two classmates of "harassing and
demoralising" him. He also accused head of community medicine
department Dr N K Goel of preventing him from taking the exams because
he was a scheduled caste.

The police handed over the body to his family on Monday after a
post-mortem examination. Sources said Jaspreet had tried to commit
suicide earlier too but timely action saved him then. The police have
booked both classmates and Goel on charges of abetting the suicide.
However, no arrests were made as the suicide note would be examined
first.