25 year old Dalit MPhil student from JNU commits suicide - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
13th March 2017 / 10:52 pm
Muthukrishanan Jeevanantham (Rajni Krish), a 25-year-old 1st year MPhil student of Centre for Historical Studies at JNU, has reportedly committed suicide at a friend’s house in Munirka Vihar in Delhi. Last year, on 17 January 2016, yet another Dalit Scholar, Rohith Vemula had committed suicide in University of Hyderabad. Another JNU student, Pallikonda Manikanta, wrote the following at 6:43 p.m on his Facebook profile.
At 7:05 p.m. Pallikonda wrote again on Facebook stating that Police were taking away Krish’s body and that his family’s contact numbers were needed urgently.
In Krish’s last Facebook post on March 10th, 3 days before his death, he had written about the inquality in admission procedure and how students are denied a place to protest.
In yet another Facebook post on July 26, 2016, he had written about how difficult it was for him to get into JNU.
Many people wrote heartfelt condolence messages on his Facebook Profile.
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