Four former college students held guilty of abetting a junior student’s suicide

The convicted women had tortured the deceased mentally and threatened to throw acid on her face and get her raped.

Published on: Feb 6, 2021, 13:21:14 IST

By Shruti Tomar | Edited by Abhinav Sahay, Bhopal

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Bhopal district court on Friday held four women guilty of ragging and abetting suicide of an 18-year-old girl student and sentenced them to five years in jail, said a government advocate.

The convicted women have been sentenced to five years in prison (HT File Photo)

Additional district judge Anil Ranjan Samadhiya pronounced the judgement against Nidhi Magre, 27, Deepti Solanki, 28, Kirti Gaur, 28 and Divyanshi Sharma, 27 under section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The government advocate Khalid Qureshi said, “One of the faculty members, Manish Gupta, was acquitted by the court.”

“A second-year bachelor of pharmacy student of RKDF College in Bhopal died by suicide on August 6, 2013. Police had recovered a suicide note in which she accused four senior students and a faculty member of harassing her,” said Qureshi.

She had written that the four seniors had been ragging her for the past one year.

“The four seniors used to force her to complete their assignments and also to write mid-semester answer sheets. The girl complained to Manish Gupta, a faculty member, but instead of taking action against the seniors, he asked her to obey her seniors. When the four girls came to know about it, they started torturing her mentally and also threatened to throw acid on her face and get her raped. This led to the girl taking her own life,” Qureshi said.

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Shruti Tomar
I have spent over a decade chronicling Madhya Pradesh’s political and social landscape, covering politics, investigative journalism, crime, human interest, and government policy, blending sharp insight with ground‑level depth. I have closely tracked three assembly elections, three Lok Sabha elections, leadership transitions in MP while exposing governance lapses, tender irregularities, and flawed policy rollouts. My reports have revealed gaps in the Cheetah project, irregularities in medical education, rigging in recruitment exams, and loopholes in policy implementation. In crime reporting, I have moved beyond FIRs to map systemic patterns — from organised crime networks and gender‑based violence to custodial accountability — balancing urgency with sensitivity. My journalism is defined by a commitment to human interest. I have profiled the marginalised Bancchda community, documented atrocities against tribal groups, and highlighted efforts to preserve their culture through heritage liquor and revival of spiritual practices. I have reported on farmers struggling with failed MSP promises, giving voice to those often reduced to statistics in policy files. Passionate about field reporting, I have reported on rampant sand mining in Chambal and Narmada, pharmaceutical companies supplying medicines under altered names, the dire condition of schools and colleges, the plight of commercial sex workers, and skewed sex ratios in specific districts. Beyond deadlines, and as HT’s state correspondent and assistant editor in Madhya Pradesh, I engage with ministers, farmers, students, and activists, believing the best policy stories begin with a single human voice. A postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communication, I also hold a diploma in sports journalism.Read More

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