Overview
- A bystander filmed a college student disposing of garbage and posted the clip online, which quickly drew heavy public criticism and social-media trolling.
- Police examined the video, registered an offence under Goa’s Non-Biodegradable Garbage Control law, summoned the student to the station, questioned him and issued a notice.
- Hours after that interaction the student was found dead from a gunshot at his Mapusa home late Thursday night and was declared dead at hospital.
- The family says the online abuse and the police summons pushed him into deep depression and are demanding arrest of the person who filmed and posted the clip.
- Authorities have opened an unnatural-death/inquest case, the chief minister has ordered a detailed inquiry and investigators are probing how the student accessed the licensed family firearm but have not established a conclusive link between the viral video, police action and the death.