PATIALA: Vivek Gupta, 24-year-old student of the Government Medical College died here Thursday under mysterious circumstances. Police has registered a case under section 302 against unknown persons, on the complaint of Bimal Kumar, one of the relatives of Vivek, who alleged that the boy had been murdered.

The college authorities have however maintained that death of Vivek was an accident. Vivek, resident of  Mohali, was in his final year of MBBS. He was found dead on the first floor of the senior boy's hostel. He fell from the roof of the second floor late last night. His body was discovered this morning by his room mates at around 6.30 in the morning after which the matter was reported to the college authorities and subsequently to the police. 

Investigations carried out by the police discovered that there were no signs of scuffle at the scene where Vivek's body was discovered. Senior superintendent of police Parmod Ban said that as the relatives of the deceased alleged that there was some conspiracy behind Vivek's death, hence a case under section 302 was registered at the civil line police station. He said that it appeared to be an accident but the police would investigate the whole matter from the point of view of a murder to ascertain foul play if any. 

Meanwhile, the police started with the investigation of the case and quizzed several of Vivek's friends to ascertain whether he had any disputes with anybody, after which the SSP said so far no such facts had come to light which could determine that Vivek had been murdered. He said that Vivek had gone to the roof to make some calls last night, from where he fell on hard concrete and sustained a head injury, which seemed to have proven fatal for him.