Varanasi: A Banaras Hindu University (BHU) faculty member and warden of the Sarojini Naidu girls hostel ended her life by suicide. Dr Kiran Singh, 45, set herself on fire in her room on varsity campus on Monday. Additional Deputy Police Commissioner Vikas Chandra Tripathi said that during initial investigation, it has been found that she was upset due to health issues for a long time. The body has been sent for post mortem and further investigation is underway, he said.
Dr Singh, an associate professor in molecular and human genetics department of BHU lived in the warden quarter of the Sarojini Naidu hostel with her husband Vivek Singh and daughter Swayamprabha. Her husband told the police that he had gone to Sigra for some work while their daughter was playing in a room on the ground floor of the house when the incident took place. Dr Singh had sent back their domestic help, Rajendra, when he had come to clean the house.