Overview

• Police identified the deceased as Priya Karthik, a 27-year-old postgraduate psychiatry student at Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences and a native of Bengaluru.
• Preliminary findings indicate she consumed medication in the institute’s hostel after attending patient examinations at the district hospital on Monday evening.
• A case has been registered at the APMC Police station, and investigators say the exact cause will be confirmed after the postmortem.
• BIMS Director Ashok Shetty said she had been battling depression, and separate reports suggest she had attempted suicide a few days earlier.
• The incident follows recent student suicides reported in Karnataka, including cases in Shivamogga on June 1 and Mandya on July 22, as well as a case in Mangaluru in November 2023.