Date:24/05/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/05/24/stories/2007052416640400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Doctor ends life after failing to get PG seat

Staff Reporter

CRIMENOTES

BANGALORE: A young doctor, who could not get a postgraduate medical seat of her choice, committed suicide by taking sleeping pills at her house in MLA Layout in Sanjaynagar police station limits.

The police gave her name as Rashmi (26), an MBBS graduate and daughter of Nagaraj, an employee of Karnataka State Slum Clearance Board.

On Tuesday, Rashmi, accompanied by her father, attended the counselling session for selecting postgraduate medical seat at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. But she could not get a seat for M.D. (Paediatrics) or M.D. (General Medicine) she wanted, the police said.

Even as her father was enquiring with the university office, Rashmi went missing from there.

Around 4 p.m., Mr. Nagaraj lodged a missing complaint with the jurisdictional Tilaknagar police.

The family members searched for Rashmi till midnight and they went to sleep in the early hours of Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, Mr. Nagaraj went to the terrace of his house and found Rashmi's handbag, water bottle and some tablets lying near the overhead water tank.

Rashmi was found lying unconscious in a narrow passage beneath the water tank. She was rushed to M.S. Ramaiah Hospital and she was declared brought dead by the doctors. Assistant Commissioner of Police (J.C. Nagar sub-division) U.P. Shivarama Reddy told The Hindu that she had consumed a heavy dose of sleeping pills. The Sanjaynagar police have registered a case.

Another suicide

Shiva Kumar (22) hanged himself at his mobile phone shop in Nandini Layout police station limits.

The police said that Shiva Kumar, said to have been jilted, had not returned home since Monday and his father Krishna went to the mobile phone shop on Sri Kanteerava Studios Main Road on Tuesday evening and found the rolling shutters partially opened.

Suspecting that burglars could have struck at the shop, Krishna called the police. When the police opened the rolling shutters, they found Shiva Kumar's body hanging from a ceiling fan. The Nandini Layout police have registered a case.