Search team fails to find NIPER student

With no trace of a 25-year-old final year MBA student of Mohalis National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Dalip Kotadiya...

With no trace of a 25-year-old final year MBA (Pharma) student of Mohalis National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) Dalip Kotadiya,who had drowned in a Beas subsidiary near Manikaran gurdwara in Kullu on March 3 evening,a five-member special team of NIPER and family members of Dalip have returned from Himachal Pradesh.

A team of three faculty members and two students from NIPER and Dalips elder brother and other relatives had gone to the spot on March 4 to assist in the rescue operations.

Confirming this on Saturday evening,NIPER officiating Director Prof K K Bhutani told Newsline that the search operation was carried out today also but it again turned out to be a futile exercise.

A dummy was also thrown inside the river from the spot where Dalip had fallen but the same could not be traced after it went deep inside the gushing waters of the Parvati river, said Prof Bhutani,while stating that it was very unfortunate to lose a bright student.

He said though it prime facie seemed to be a case of accident,an inquiry was underway to bring out facts to the fore.

Over 80 per cent of persons who had drowned from the spot in the past were never retrieved alive or dead,those involved in rescue operations had told NIPER officials.

Hailing from Aditala village of Amreli district in Gujarat,Dalip had gone with 51 fellow MBA (Pharma) hostellers on an excursion to Kullu,

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Manali and Manikaran on March 1 and when they were on way back to Mohali,Dalip had slipped from a rock during a photoshoot.

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