Patna, Jan. 28: The father of 21-year-old Sunny Kumar Raushan, the PMCH student who committed suicide allegedly after ragging, gave a new twist to the case today claiming that he was made to lodge the FIR “in a hurry”. He also questioned the rapid fire checking of the answer scripts of his son after he committed suicide.

Sunny, a first year MBBS student, committed suicide late on Wednesday night. Yesterday chief minister Nitish Kumar ordered a probe into the case.

Acting on the directions of the chief minister, the college has formed an eight-member committee. Patna district magistrate Jeetendra Kumar has asked the team to submit a report within 10 days on whether ragging drove Sunny to take the extreme step or not.

Sunny’s father, Kameshwar Rai, today said he would speak to the police and add the ragging factor in the FIR.

“One can very well imagine what would have been the condition of a father whose son died in such a way. I was very nervous. The police did not give me much time in writing down certain details: the time I thought he died, when we came to Patna and others. The police did not help me at all. I blindly followed their directions. My son was physically and mentally tortured, which led to the incident,” Kameshwar said.

Police sources said there were no questions of “hurrying up” Kameshwar.

“Why should the police do so? The last sentence of the FIR states he will inform the police if he comes to know about anything,” an officer looking after the case said.

Nailing the PMCH authorities, Kameshwar said: “His exams were over on January 24. The college claimed they had already checked his answer scripts. He committed suicide just a day after his exams were over. January 26 was a national holiday and the college was certainly closed. After the incident, the college suddenly claimed they had checked the answer sheets and put in the marks. How is it possible? They are clearly trying to hush up the issue,” he said.

N.P. Yadav, the principal of PMCH, told The Telegraph Sunny’s answer scripts may have been checked in hurry on Thursday after the police team arrived for investigations.

The principal said: “Maybe they had already checked Sunny’s answer sheets before the police team arrived on January 27. The police wanted to know what kind of a student he was and the answer sheets may have been checked then.”

Yadav, however, was confident that ragging was not the cause behind Sunny’s suicide.

“He was definitely not ragged or abused. We have an anti-ragging cell and it is very active. He had joined the college seven months ago. If at all he was ragged, how can it continue for so long? Moreover, since the Fresher’s Day in November the juniors started interacting with seniors and they are like friends,” he said.