Murder case against five BIT students

Ranchi police have booked five students of Birla Institute of Technology BIT, Mersa, on murder charges following the death of a 21-year-old student of the institution.

Amit Lal was found dead inside his room No 94 at the BIT hostel No 3 on Tuesday night. The police recovered the body and sent it to the government hospital here for post-mortem8212;the report is awaited.

While the BIT, Mersa Vice-Chancellor S K Mukherjee has maintained that it was a case of 8216;8216;suicide8217;8217;8212;Amit failed to get promoted to the fifth semester8212;the police filed an FIR last night, acting on a letter written by Amit8217;s father Prem Prakash Lal, a resident of Doranda, to Ranchi SSP Anil Palta.