Rajasthan university students sneak into pool at night; 1 drowns
Boys were drinking on campus.
An undergraduate enrolled with the Rajasthan College reportedly drowned in the swimming pool at University of Rajasthan around 2:00am on Tuesday.
Ganpat Singh (18), a resident of Barmer, had reportedly climbed the high wall guarding the pool – locked from the outside – with his five friends moments before he drowned in the pool. The students, according to police, were heavily drunk from consuming liquor at a party at Law College student union president Abhishek Choudhary’s office located on the campus.
The victim had taken admission with the Rajasthan College just a couple of months back.
The deceased and his five friends - Devbrat Chaudhary, Gautam Kumawat, Prem Kumar, Rinku Yadav and Ashok Kumar - trespassed on the pool premises after jumping off the 25-feet wall fenced with iron flexes. The fence was found broken by the police during investigation. The students used abandoned bamboo shafts to climb atop the wall, police said.
A five-member committee has been formed by the Rajasthan University to inquire into the matter. The committee will submit its report to the Vice-Chancellor. Initial investigations suggest Ganpat swam into the 15-feet deep section of the swimming pool while his friends waded in the shallow waters. After some time, the boys noticed their friend was not with them. When they couldn’t locate him, they fled from the pool and narrated the incident to another friend Mukesh. Thereafter, they reached the Ganadhi Nagar Police station and told the police about the incident.
The police could retrieve the body at 6:00am when a team of divers searched the swimming pool. The body has been preserved at the SMS hospital mortuary for post-mortem. Prima facie, the police are considering it a case of drowning but interrogations with Ganpat’s friends are on.
Alpana Kateja, principal, Rajasthan College, while speaking to dna told that Ganpat was a bright student and had secured 80% marks in his class XII. Classes remained suspended on Tuesday. We have informed the family of the victim, she said.
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