Relatives of Shoubhik Sinha, who allegedly jumped off a building of St Xavier's College hostel in Calcutta on Friday, have urged director-general of police P.K. Thakur to send a team to Bengal for a probe.

The victim's uncle, Saurabh Nandan Ghosh, a resident of Anandpuri in upscale Boring Canal Road in Patna, said he spoke to the state police chief over phone on Sunday and sought an appointment with him to make a formal request for sending a police team to Bengal.

"I have also requested the director-general of police (DGP) to cooperate with the family in this hour of crisis," he told The Telegraph.

Saurabh said he would also seek the intervention of Patna based non-government organisations to highlight the issue as, he alleged, the college authority was trying to hush up the matter.

"I have serious doubts that the truth will ever come out as the college administration is making an all-out effort to suppress the matter," Saurabh alleged.

He also rubbished the report that Shoubhik was depressed after he failed to get admission in an engineering college.

"It's true that he (Shoubhik) had taken the exams for admission in IIT or NIT but he dropped the idea once he got enrolled to BSc statistics honours at St Xavier's College, Calcutta, last year. He was a brilliant student and had scored 96 per cent marks in his Plus Two examination," he added.

The victim's uncle said Shoubhik had complained about the activities of some of the inmates of the hostel of the institute.

"It seems he may have been harassed or subjected to ragging by some hostel inmates. There is something amiss, which the college administration is trying to hide. The college authority didn't contact the family either," he alleged.

DGP Thakur, however, could not be contacted for comment on the matter.