Bareilly: Anadi Dixit, father of deceased first-year medical student Ananya Dixit, has started an online campaign and a petition on change.org which has received 10k signatories in two days. The petition marked to Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar alleges serious irregularities by the administration and staff of Sri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences concerning the safety of students enrolled for medical courses. Ananya, 17, a Noida resident, had allegedly committed suicide in the college on September 6.“Although this death is being reported as a suicide by the college administration, certain facts indicate towards the possibility of a murder or death caused by negligence,” Anadi said. An online campaign under ‘Justice for Ananya’ has started picking up on Facebook and Twitter as well.Ananya allegedly hanged herself barely 10 days after joining the college. While the college administration claimed that she was suffering from depression, her family outrightly refuted that. “We were all excited about her successful enrolment in MBBS, her preferred career choice. Ananya was cheerful and was in a sound mental state at the time of joining. She had purchased books for the entire course even as the college authorities advised students to buy books only for the first academic year. This is not how a child under depression behaves,” Anadi said.Earlier, a student from Ghaziabad, Ankita Singhal, had committed suicide at the college in 2014. Another student named Priyanka Singh had ended her life here in 2015. Last year, Bareilly resident Yash Khatwani too had taken his life in the institute.“We took an initiative to speak to other parents and found that in all other cases, the conduct of SRMS authorities had been similar,” Anadi said.In its defence, the college administration has claimed that there were no lapses in security. “As a doctor, our foremost priority is to save lives. I myself checked the pulse of the deceased student and declared her dead. No evidences were tempered with and police were immediately called,” RC Purohit, Principal of the college, said.Meanwhile, one of the online signatories named Shibani Mukherji wrote, "I have known her. She was definitely not the kind to take her own life. She was the kind to fight back."An FIR has already been filed in the case and police are probing charges of negligence and destruction of evidence from the spot.

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