The 34-year-old AIIMS doctor, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances more than a week ago, had been issued a memo two days before he ended his life for not presenting his thesis progress work
The 34-year-old AIIMS doctor, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances more than a week ago, had been issued a memo two days before he ended his life for not presenting his thesis progress work despite multiple written reminders and was warned he might not be allowed to appear in the final MD exam.
Kumar Kunal, a junior resident in the AIIMS medicine department, was found dead in his hostel room in the Masjid Moth doctors’ hostel on March 17.
“It has been noticed that since the submission of your protocol you have not presented your thesis progress work in departmental thesis committee meeting despite multiple written requests as well as verbal communication for the same,” said the memorandum issued to him on March 15. The memorandum said Kunal had failed to follow up on the instructions given by the committee constituted by dean, academy, to present his thesis progress report in two weeks.
“It has also been noticed that you failed to follow up the instruction given by the committee constituted by dean academy to present thesis progress report within two weeks. Therefore you are requested to present your thesis progress report in the department thesis committee on March 16, 2016 for the last time. As you know that thesis is a mandatory part of the MD programme in AIIMS, failing which you may not be allowed to appear in final examination,” the memorandum said.
The Delhi police, after the initial probe, had said that there did not seem to be any foul play and that the death might have occurred due to drug overdose as he was an addict.
