Overview

• Vishal Bhardwaj, a 25-year-old law student at Jammu University, fell from his hostel terrace on Tuesday night and was found unconscious on the building’s rear side.
• He was rushed to Government Medical College Hospital where he was pronounced dead, and officials say his postmortem was conducted on Wednesday.
• Police have initiated inquest proceedings to establish the exact circumstances of Bhardwaj’s fatal fall.
• Separately, villagers discovered the body of an unidentified woman aged about 35 near an irrigation canal in Kotli Charkan village of the Bishnah area.
• The woman’s body showed a cut mark on the throat and has been transferred for identification and postmortem as a police investigation continues.