Gurugram, May 4 (PTI) A 20-year-old nursing student allegedly committed suicide in her hostel room in the Sector 31 area here, police said on Saturday.

In the early hours of Friday, Ritu, a resident of Akbarpur Natol village in Haryana's Palwal, was found hanging in his hostel room, they said.

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No suicide note was found in the nursing student's room, SHO (sector 40) Manoj Kumar said.

A police team took the body into custody and while they were taking it to a mortuary, Ritu's family members and some workers of the Bhim Sena staged a protest and alleged that the nursing student was killed as she belonged to Scheduled Caste.

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The police somehow took the body to the mortuary for a post-mortem, they added.

The family accused the hostel management of caste-based discrimination against her but later agreed that she committed suicide, police said.

"The cause behind Ritu's death is revealed as hanging in the post-mortem report. We handed over the body to kin. It was a case of suicide but further probe is underway,” SHO Kumar said.

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