Dibrugarh (Assam):  Sarita Toshniwal, a Post Graduate Medical Student at Assam Medical College here was found dead with her neck slit in the Intensive Care Unit today.
Sensation gripped Assam Medical College (AMC) in Dibrugarh town after Sarita Toshniwal’s body was discovered lying in a pool of blood under mysterious circumstances.
Police arrested a ward boy in connection with the case and a probe is on.
Sarita, who hails from neighbouring Sivsagar district, was a first-year post-graduate student of the gynaecology department, AMC officials said. She was on night duty since Thursday evening in the ICU, they said.
The officials said a nurse went to the ward around 7.30 a.m. and found her lying in a pool of blood.
Police said they saw a cut mark on her neck and they recovered a surgical knife that might have been used to commit the murder.
The AMC is one of the oldest medical institutes in northeast India. British philanthropist Sir John Berry White, a retired brigadier of the British Army, spent his lifetime’s earning to establish this institution. It was earlier known as Berry White Medical School.