Dr Jyotsana Meshram, Head of the Post-graduate Department of Chemistry, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, passed away on Monday morning. She was 56.
Dr Jyotsana, is learnt to have committed suicide by jumping from ninth floor of a building in Beltarodi. She had gone there at her relative’s place. She was under depression following death of her husband Dr Sudhir Meshram, Founder of Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Centre of RTM Nagpur University and former VC of North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, on March 15 this year. She had visited USA to meet her son a few days back.
Those closely associated with the family stated that she was under severe depression after Dr Sudhir Meshram’s death. Beltarodi police have registered a case of accidental death following information given by Vinay Khobragade.