Police register murder FIR after JU girl’s dad visits Lalbazar, meets CP
Times of India | 16 September 2025
Kolkata: Four days after the death of Jadavpur University student Anamika Mondal, who drowned in a campus pond last week, cops registered a murder case on Monday after her father met police commissioner Manoj Verma at Lalbazar.
He was subsequently escorted to Jadavpur police station, where he filed the official complaint.
"I have submitted written complaints to the commissioner as well as Jadavpur police station. I wrote in detail our doubts over the manner of my daughter's death and the people we suspect may have been involved in it. The cops have given us a patient hearing, and we have full faith in the police investigation," Arnab Mondal, Anamika's father, told TOI on Monday.
On Sunday, Mondal told TOI that her friends might have forced her to drink alcohol and pushed her into the water, knowing well she could not swim. This led cops to immediately issue summons to Anamika's four friends, asking them to appear before the cops for investigation.
"From day 1, a committed team of officers has been investigating this case. At first, the parents provided a written statement saying they had no complaint against anyone, which led us to register it as an unnatural death case.
However, the parents have now come forward, believing there is more to the matter and wish to file an official complaint. We have assisted them in this, and the process to register an FIR for murder is currently in progress," Verma told TOI.
Mondal also told TOI that in his complaint, he has urged the cops to check with whom Anamika last spoke with over the phone. He also shared with cops photographs and videos of the event and friends she was with on the evening of her death.
"My daughter was afraid of darkness and even small insects. She wouldn't dare to walk alone. She must have been with someone. If the investigation proves she was drunk, someone must have forced her to drink and then pushed her into the pond, knowing well that she couldn't swim.
Police should question everyone," Mondal said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, cops recorded statements of a few witnesses who were at JU at the time of the drowning.
The process was underway to record statements from more witnesses, including four of her friends who were the first to locate her body, pull her out, call the police and inform the girl's family.
Anamika, who was on campus to attend Ruhaniyat, a three-day cultural festival, was found dead in a water body near the undergraduate building late Thursday night. The initial autopsy report confirmed drowning as the cause of death. Apart from minor scratches on her elbows, which police believe may have been sustained during the fall, no other external or internal injuries were found. Cops have ordered a viscera test to determine whether alcohol or any other intoxicating substance played a role in the incident.