PRAYAGRAJ: Despite continuing agitation over the death of a student on Allahabad University (AU) campus on July 11, there has been no information so far on the possible cause of the demise as well as the compensation sought by the student leaders for family of the deceased.
Ashutosh Dubey of Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) of AU had died shortly after drinking water from a water cooler near the office of the dean college development council (CDC) post his lunch that he had brought with him.
Sources said the viscera has been preserved for chemical analysis after the postmortem. No one, including the student leaders or AU administration, is talking about enhancing the medical facility on the campus.TOI spoke to students who had helped Ashutosh on the ill-fated day.
TOI learnt that Ashutosh fell on the road soon after drinking water. Some employees of CDC tried to help him by sprinkling water on his face. Some students of IPS also rushed to help. Some also informed the office of the dean student welfare (DSW) seeking an ambulance.“When we reached and were talking to one of the employees of the DSW office, the ambulance arrived. But when we asked him to come with us, the driver said he cannot as he does not have any instructions for the same,” said one of the students while talking to TOI.“When we came to know that an ambulance will not come, we rushed to the main road and brought an e-rickshaw and in the meantime, some teachers of the centre too had come,” said one of the students who took Ashutosh to hospital. “It is not true that the e-rickshaw was not allowed inside the campus and we took him to a private hospital as fast as we could,” he added.
The private hospital referred the student to SRN Hospital where he died within minutes of arriving.Students question why the ambulance driver refused to help sans clearance as saving life was more important than getting official approval.
Moreover, the police too are tight lipped over the probe that is being carried out in the case.
Station house officer (Colonelganj) Brijesh Singh told TOI that a detailed probe was underway after the family members of the deceased had submitted an application. Sources said the teachers from IPS had handed over the half-eaten tiffin of Ashutosh to the police on July 12. The tiffin was recovered from the bag, attached to the side of his bike. Police had assured the teachers that they would include the tiffin and its content in their probe. Commenting on the issue of providing compensation to Dubey’s family, AU public relation officer Prof Jaya Kapoor said: “AU administration had forwarded all the documents pertaining to this case to the insurance company and is pursuing the case. The family of the boy would be given the compensation as per the insurance very soon.”The PRO had also issued a detailed chronology of events that took place on July 11 and 12.
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