NEET aspirant’s father blames lack of ‘anti-suicide’ device for son’s death at PG

The father of a NEET aspirant who hanged himself at his rented accommodation here has accused negligence on the part of the PG’s owner and management for not installing an “anti-suicide” device on the fan.

The body of 20-year-old Mohammad Urooj, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj, was handed over to his family on Wednesday morning after conducting a post-mortem, Station House Office (Vigyan Nagar) Satish Chaudhary said. A case has been registered in the matter on the complaint of Urooj’s father Sabir Khan, he said, adding that further probe is underway to ascertain the reason behind the student’s extreme step.

SHO Chaudhary on Tuesday said the ceiling fan in Urooj’s room was not equipped with an anti-suicide device.Khan, while talking to reporters outside the mortuary, said that he holds the PG owner and management responsible for his son’s death. He said that his son was good at studies and it was “negligence” of the PG owner and management that the fan in Urooj’s room was not equipped with an anti-suicide device.

If they had installed the device as per norms and guidelines, Urooj could have been saved, Khan said.