Parallel News Digital Desk, 9th August:
A third-year PhD scholar at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Kalyani died on Friday, hours after falling ill on campus, police said. Anamitra Roy, 24, was taken to AIIMS-Kalyani in critical condition late on Thursday and died early on Friday, a police officer said, citing hospital officials. His family said they were informed that he suffered sudden heart failure.
Roy, from Shyamnagar in neighbouring North 24 Parganas district, had spoken in social media posts about struggling with depression since adolescence and had hinted at suicide in the past, writing that “therapy and medicines somehow kept me alive.”
Some batchmates claimed he had recently argued with a faculty guide in the laboratory, though the institute declined to comment beyond confirming his death. Police have ordered an investigation, and a post-mortem examination is under way.
