Overview
- Police identified the deceased as 28-year-old Vishal Gautam, a first-year resident at Guru Dronacharya Ayurvedic College in Saharanpur.
- Officers said he was riding with two classmates when an unidentified vehicle allegedly hit them near Khushalipur village, killing him and injuring the others.
- Relatives staged a campus protest as Vishal’s father filed a complaint naming six students and a teacher, alleging a conspiracy to murder and attempts to destroy evidence.
- Family members accused seniors of prior ragging, claimed a grudge linked to a dispute involving a girl, and alleged tampering with Vishal’s phone records before they arrived.
- Police sent the body for post-mortem, deployed additional forces, began reviewing CCTV to trace the vehicle, and said no FIR has been registered on the family’s allegations so far.