A 26-year-old AIIMS student was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his rented flat in South Delhi's Hauz Khas area on Sunday morning.
There were injection marks on the deceased’s hands and an injection was found near his body, prompting police to suspect that he had committed suicide. Senior officers, however, treaded cautiously on the cause of the death, saying they would await the autopsy report. A native of Tamil Nadu, the deceased, Sarvanan Ganeshan, had joined AIIMS a week ago as a Junior Resident for his MD degree in Medicine in the July batch.
The death came to light around Sunday noon when Ganeshan did not report to duty in the morning. His colleagues and senior residents of the Department of Medicine called him repeatedly on his phone, but there was no response, said a spokesperson at AIIMS.
They then called his neighbours who checked on his flat. When repeated knocks on his door yielded no response from inside, police were informed.
The room was broken into and the victim rushed to AIIMS emergency department. He was, however, declared brought dead. The body has been sent for post-mortem and his family in Tamil Nadu informed.
“The AIIMS faculty and administration deeply mourns the sad incident and is deeply concerned about it. It will cooperate with the police in its investigations whenever necessary and asked for. The police meanwhile is conducting and investigation into the above mentioned case,” said a statement from the hospital.
