A 30-year-old nurse, Rupali Burman, is found dead inside a locked toilet at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital (NRS) in Kolkata. Police and hospital staff report she does not return after leaving her duty in the Gynaecology Department’s High Dependency Unit (HDU) and is later discovered unconscious inside the restroom, where staff force the door open. Doctors declare her dead, and a post-mortem examination is scheduled to determine the cause.
Police say Burman reports for her night shift at around 8 pm, enters the restroom around 10:20 pm, and is noticed missing after colleagues call her without response roughly in the 10:20–10:30 pm window. Investigators describe the death as unclear and state that suicide has not been established. A forensic team examines the scene, and CCTV outside the toilet is seized to reconstruct events. One outlet reports empty anaesthetic vials and a syringe are recovered from the toilet, while another source highlights that these items have not been linked to the death.
The case is handled by Kolkata Police’s DD Homicide Department, with a state health inquiry committee also formed and asked to submit a report within seven days. Police seize the nurse’s phone for call-record checks and have asked her husband to come to the hospital. The Economic Times article provides limited details in the provided text.
