Another student ends life at BITS Goa, 6th on campus since Dec 2024

VASCO: In the sixth case of suicide at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa campus, a 20-year-old woman student died by suicide in her hostel room late on Sunday evening.

Vaishnavi, from Bengaluru, was pursuing her course in electronics and communication engineering.


“The incident might have happened on Sunday afternoon. However, students and the management came to know about it later in the evening,” Vasco sub-division SP Gurudas Kadam said.

This is the first recorded case of a suicide by a woman student at the campus.

“The public relations officer at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa campus, Arjun Halarnkar, informed Verna police station about the tragic death of the girl student at around 10pm (after) the girl failed to respond to her colleagues,” said Kadam. “She was occupying a room on the hostel’s third floor,” he told TOI.

Since the door was latched from inside, police were forced to break open the door, he said.

Kadam said that after conducting a panchnama at the scene of the unnatural death as well as inquest panchanama, the woman’s body was sent to the South Goa district hospital, Margao, for further medico-legal formalities.

“A case of unnatural death under Section 194 of the BNSS has been registered,” he said, adding that the postmortem report revealed that the woman died due to “the constriction of neck by ligature material”.

Further investigation is being conducted by PI Anand Shirodkar.