Stalin condoles death of TN student in Delhi

Joshua (24), son of Christian Medical College Hospital doctor Nihal Thomas, allegedly committed suicide on Friday by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in a study room at the university, police said. Joshua’s body is expected to arrive from New Delhi in Vellore today. In a statement, Stalin cited deaths of two other students in the past and urged the State government to develop an institutional framework to protect its students who migrate for higher studies.

“The government has to develop institutional framework to protect students facing various issues in other states,” he said.

Even in the past, Stalin said, AIIMS student Saravanan Ganesh (2016) and Delhi University college student Sharath Prabhu (2018), both residents of the State, died mysteriously.

“The Central and State governments did not initiate fair probe into the deaths and try to find the reasons that is causing mental stress to the students in the national capital,” he said. The second year MA student at JNU’s English centre e-mailed a purported suicide note to his English professor before hanging himself, police said.

According to police, in the six-line email, Joshua wrote to his professor, “From sometime, I wanted to experience the physical state of death. By the time you read the mail, I will not be in physical state. Take care of my parents.”