The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the central government and AIIMS on a plea by a couple seeking a CBI inquiry into the death of their son, an MBBS student who reportedly committed suicide in the AIIMS campus three years ago.
Justice VK Jain sought a response from the government and management of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) by 30 January, 2014.
The parents also sought the court’s direction to the government and AIIMS for financial compensation for the death of their 24-year-old son.
Gulab Chand Ahirwal and his wife Shanti Devi, who hail from Madhya Pradesh, had moved the high court saying that AIIMS failed to conduct a proper inquiry into the death of their son Balmukund Bharati who died 3 March, 2010.
They sought an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the case.
On 3 March, 2010, Balmukund, a final year MBBS student, reportedly hanged himself from the ceiling fan in his hostel room after failing in his exams.
‘Respondent AIIMS and other authorities have failed to properly investigate the exact reason for the death of their son and they have also failed to pay any compensation till date for untimely and unnatural demise of Balmukund,’ the parents of the late student said in the plea. The petitioners alleged that the student was discriminated against by faculty members on the basis of caste and that he was failed by the professor concerned.
Justice VK Jain sought a response from the government and management of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) by 30 January, 2014.
The parents also sought the court’s direction to the government and AIIMS for financial compensation for the death of their 24-year-old son.
Gulab Chand Ahirwal and his wife Shanti Devi, who hail from Madhya Pradesh, had moved the high court saying that AIIMS failed to conduct a proper inquiry into the death of their son Balmukund Bharati who died 3 March, 2010.
They sought an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the case.
On 3 March, 2010, Balmukund, a final year MBBS student, reportedly hanged himself from the ceiling fan in his hostel room after failing in his exams.
‘Respondent AIIMS and other authorities have failed to properly investigate the exact reason for the death of their son and they have also failed to pay any compensation till date for untimely and unnatural demise of Balmukund,’ the parents of the late student said in the plea. The petitioners alleged that the student was discriminated against by faculty members on the basis of caste and that he was failed by the professor concerned.