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Kolkata: Body of Jadavpur University student recovered from the river Ganga

| | Nov 28, 2016, at 07:36 am
Kolkata, Nov 27 (IBNS): Three days after an engineering student of Kolkata's Jadavpur University went missing in river Ganga during a boat trip, city police on Sunday recovered his body from Fairlie Place jetty area, reports said.

According to police reports, after being recovered, the body of 20-year-old student Raunak Saha, who was a resident of Salt Lake's Purbachal, was sent to SSKM hospital nearby, where his family members identified him.

Earlier on Thursday afternoon, Raunak Saha, a second year student of JU's Computer Science and Engineering department, went to Pani Ghat under South Port Police Station limits for a boat trip with his four friends.

During the trip, Raunak suddenly fell into the river and went missing, as his friends claimed.

Police arrested their boatman- Sk. Saifuddin- with a charge of negligence, while the aged boatman denied his responsibility and claimed that the youth fell into river Ganges during a scuffle with his companions.

Police, however, have started investigation into the matter.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

In image: Drowned student Raunak Saha, from his Facebook profile.

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