Overview
- Police say officers found the body of a fourth-year MBBS student, later identified as Shagun Saini of Kaithal, hanging in her Muzaffarnagar Medical College hostel room on Monday evening.
- Campus students discovered the body after the room remained locked from inside and classmates looked through a ventilator, prompting police to force entry and recover the body.
- Authorities reported no suicide note at the scene and removed the body to a hospital for postmortem as they began an investigation into the unexplained death.
- Police called a forensic team, seized the student’s mobile phone for analysis, and said early questioning pointed to repeated disputes with a male friend as a line of inquiry.
- Coverage to date is based on initial police briefings and wire reporting, and officials have not released postmortem results or a confirmed motive as the probe continues.