A 19-year-old college student died under mysterious circumstances at the Air Force Command Hospital on Friday night.
The deceased has been identified as Divya Sharma, a resident of Akash Vihar, Mallattahalli.
In a statement to police, Sharma’s mother, Kamesh, said that her daughter complained of stomach ache on Friday night. When the pain worsened, Sharma was rushed to the Air Force Command Hospital, but passed away later that night.
Considering the peculiar nature of the case, police believe that Sharma committed suicide. Although an autopsy was conducted at Bowring Hospital on Saturday evening, the postmortem report is not yet ready.
“Only the postmortem report can throw more light on the exact cause of death,” said a senior police official of the sub-division. He added that the viscera has been sent to a laboratory for additional toxicological and histo-pathological tests.
HAL Police have registered a case of suspicious death and are investigating.
The family is originally from West Bengal. Police said that Divya was a student of a City college and was living with her mother. Her father, Y K Sharma is an air force warrant officer currently posted in Guwahati, Assam.
Teen drowns
A 16-year-old boy who was a trying to swim in a water tank in Aralur Bande, drowned on Saturday evening.
The deceased has been identified as Manjunath, a resident of Hosapalya. His father, Ramachandra, told police that having finished his SSLC exams, Manjunath and two of his friends, Shashi and Aravind, had gone to the tank for some fun.
Shashi and Aravind, who do not know how to swim, stayed on the shore while Manunath ventured into the water alone.
“Manjunath also did not know how to swim properly,” a local man said. “When he reached deeper water, he began to drown and called his friends for help. By the time some of us reached the tank, he had drowned.”
HSR Layout Police and officers from Fire and Emergency Services rushed to the spot with a rescue van. The body was recovered from the tank on Sunday afternoon, following a 24-hour search operation. HSR Layout Police have registered a case and are investigating.
Manjunath’s father Ramachandra runs a flour mill in Hosapalya.
