11-Dec-2012
KHARAGPUR : The wife of an IIT Kharagpur employee committed suicide in the
institution's staff quarters on Monday morning. She was mentally disturbed, her
husband and other family members told police.
B Uma Rani (48) set herself ablaze on Monday morning at the bathroom of her
husband, B. Ramanna Rao's staff quarter No. C-13. B Ramanna Rao, her husband,
is an employee of IIT Kharagpur's electrical department. On Monday morning, the
couple's 26-year-old son had left for his morning walk, while Ramanna Rao and
their daughter were asleep. Uma Rani then walked into the bathroom and set
herself afire.
A neighbour saw smoke billowing out of the bathroom and started shouting. Rao
and his daughter woke up and rushed to the bathroom to rescue Uma Rani. They
poured water on her body, but couldn't save her.
Police in the Hijli phari on the IIT campus were informed. Cops reached Ramanna
Rao's quarter by when Uma Rani had died.
Her body has been sent to the Kharagpur subdivisional hospital for autopsy.
Ramanna Rao gave police his wife's medical records which show she was under
treatment for mental illness. She was supposed to be taken to Ranchi for
treatment on December 12 for which tickets had been booked. Hijli phari OC
Akhilesh Das said they are investigating Uma Rani's death but believe the
victim was a mental patient.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wife-of-IIT-Kharagpur-staffer-kills-self/articleshow/17565491.cms
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