Police describe teen nurse’s death as suicide, say autopsy rules out rape

UNNAO SP DINESH TRIPATHI ON SUNDAY SAID THE VICTIM WAS DISTURBED AFTER HER LOVER’S MARRIAGE WAS FIXED ELSEWHERE.

KANPUR: The police have described the death of an 18-year-old nurse on the first day of her job at a private hospital in the Bangarmau area of Unnao district as a case of suicide.

The woman’s family had lodged an FIR on Saturday, alleging that she was gang raped and murdered.

However, Unnao superintendent of police Dinesh Tripathi on Sunday said the victim was disturbed after her lover’s marriage was fixed elsewhere.

Before her death, she had called her lover, the SP said. However, the family still insisted that she was gang raped and murdered in the hospital before body was hung from the outer wall of the building. The postmortem report has ruled out rape, said additional superintendent of police Shashi Shekhar Singh. But the police were waiting for the forensic report on the basis of the vaginal slides sent for examination, he said.

The body of the victim was found hanging by a rope from the outer wall of the hospital at around 11am on Saturday by some hospital visitors. The rope was tied to an iron bar protruding from a pillar on the roof of the building.

The police could not explain why she was wearing a mask and how she was seen clutching a piece of cloth in her hand.

The nurse had joined the hospital in Bangarmau on April 29. According to the FIR, she had been called to do night shift on the first day. There was another woman at reception that night. The woman at the reception has told the police she was not aware of any development as she had fever and slept as a result.

She said the victim had come to the hospital for the first time on Thursday with a man. The man, the police said, had arranged the job for her at the hospital on the day of its inauguration of April 25.

The hospital does not have CCTV camera outside or inside the premises. The police said they were investigating the case.

The hospital was allegedly found to have opened without a licence. Bangarmau MLA Shrikant Katiyar said he has asked the district magistrate and the chief medical officer how an illegal hospital was allowed to open in the area.