Indore: A 54-year-old female principal, who was set on fire five days ago by a former student on the premises of a private pharmacy college in Indore, died in the early hours of Saturday while undergoing treatment at a city hospital. A police officer gave this information. Superintendent of Police (Rural) Bhagwat Singh Virde said that Ashutosh Srivastava (24), an alumnus of BM College of Pharmacy located in the Simrol police station area, killed Dr. Vimukta Sharma (54), the principal of the college, pouring petrol on February 20 in the premises of the institution. was badly burnt.
He told that about 80 percent of the scorched female principal was hanging between life and death in the hospital for the last five days and despite all the efforts of the doctors, her life could not be saved. Virde said that Srivastava was arrested on the day of the incident and is currently in police custody.
He said that the district administration on Friday registered a case under the stringent National Security Act (Rasuka) against the accused for carrying out the heinous incident under the conspiracy. The Superintendent of Police said that based on the statement of the female principal, a case was registered against Srivastava under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 302 (murder) was added to it after the principal’s death. Has been
It is worth noting that the police, quoting the initial interrogation of Srivastava regarding the reason for the incident, had told that he had B. Pharma. Had passed the examination in July 2022, but despite being asked several times, the management of BM College of Pharmacy was not giving him his mark list. However, the college management is calling this claim of Srivastava wrong. The management says that this former student of alleged criminal tendency was not coming to the college to collect his mark sheet even after being informed several times.
