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According to an official of the STM, at about 12.30 pm, Saraswati Samanta (name changed) jumped from the building. She died on the spot, the official said.
A senior police officer said: “As per the initial investigation, it seems that the patient was suffering from acute depression since she had been tested HIV-positive. Family members of the victim said that it was her husband who had transmitted the disease to her.”
As per police sources, Saraswati got married to Rajnath Samanta, a carpenter, two years ago. Just a few months after their marriage, Saraswati started remaining sick most of the time. She returned from her in-law’s place at Narkeldanga in North Kolkata to her elder brother’s residence at Tarakeswar.
“She had developed a skin disease that the doctors at Tarakeswar said could be treated at the School of Tropical Medicine. It was from STM that we came to know that she was HIV-positive. Incidentally, the day we took Saraswati to STM, Rajnath was also present there for his treatment,” said Rinku, a relative of Saraswati. “On that day we came to know that Rajnath had been suffering from AIDS since long, even before his marriage to Saraswati,” she added.
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