Telangana Medical Student Dies Days After Attempting Suicide Over "Ragging"
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Warangal police commissioner AV Ranganath told NDTV that the WhatsApp chats on the victim's and the accused's phones suggested ragging.
A first-year postgraduate medical student died in Hyderabad on Sunday night, four days after she allegedly attempted suicide.
26-year-old D Preethi attempted suicide on Wednesday allegedly after being harassed by her senior at Kakatiya Medical College, police said. She was found unconscious after working the night shift at MGM Hospital and moved to Hyderabad in a critical condition.
On her father's complaint, Mohammed Ali Saif, a second-year post-graduate student, was arrested by the police on charges of ragging, abetment to suicide and harassment under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Warangal police commissioner AV Ranganath told NDTV that the WhatsApp chats on the victim's and the accused's phones suggested ragging.