Maha: Student found dead in varsity classroom

A 24-year-old woman student of an open university was Sunday found dead in the classroom in Sangli in Maharashtra, the police said.

The deceased Vaishali Nalwade was a second year student at the Shantiniketan Open University based in a building in Madhavnagar area of the city, an official said.

Nalwade's body was spotted by some students in the classroom for Polytechnic course, he said, adding that it is not yet clear yet whether she killed herself or otherwise.

Nalwade, who hailed from Mallewadi village in the district, had come to the college for studying on Sunday, the official said.

He said police are awaiting a postmortem report to determine the exact cause of her death.