VARANASI, June 29 -- The body of a 26-year-old junior doctor was found in his room at the Sushrut Hostel of Trauma Centre, IMS-BHU on Sunday night, police said.

The doctor, a native of Hooghly in West Bengal, was a junior resident in the department of anesthesia at IMS-BHU. According to police, his colleagues began searching for him on Sunday afternoon after he failed to report for duty since Saturday afternoon.

Police said that when his colleagues reached his hostel room, they found the door locked from the inside and informed the hostel administration. The BHU administration subsequently alerted the police. A police team broke open the door and found the doctor lying on the bed with an IV drip attached to his hand.

The BHU administra...