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    Week after Raisen death, another B-Tech student found dead in Bhopal

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    The Hawk
    July30/ 2022
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    Bhopal: While the case of a Bhopal B-Tech student found dead in mysterious circumstances is yet to be solved, yet another engineering student was found dead on his institute's campus on Saturday, police said.

    Uddeshya Ahirwar, 22, a 4th year engineering student, was found hanging from a tree in the campus of the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) here, Anil Vajpayee, in-charge of Kamla Nagar police station, said.

    Ahirwar, a resident of Burhanpur district, was staying at campus hostel of MANIT college run under the Union Education Ministry, he said.

    "The body has been sent for post-mortem examination and further investigation is underway. We are interrogating college staff and students staying in college campus," Vajpayee said.

    On July 24, the body of Nishank Rathore, who was a B-Tech student in Bhopal based college, was found cut into two pieces on railway tracks in Barkhedi-Midghat area in Raisen district.

    While the police investigation revealed that it was a suicide case, however, the family claimed Rathore was murdered.

    —IANS