Overview
- The victim was identified as Inshah Fatima, a final-year computer science diploma student living alone in the Sarojini Naidu Hostel after the winter break.
- During an evening video call, her father in Saudi Arabia alerted an acquaintance as staff and police forced entry before she was taken to JN Medical College and declared dead around 10:30 pm.
- Police say no suicide note was found, the hostel room was sealed, and a forensic examination, call-record analysis, and interviews with classmates are underway.
- Authorities stated a post-mortem was conducted on Tuesday and the body was handed to relatives for transport to her hometown in Azamgarh.
- The AMU proctor said peers reported she had been distressed over her parents’ recent divorce, though investigators have not established a motive and reports also describe entry delays due to women’s hostel protocols.