Reetu, a law student from Jind, was killed after being run over by a train while returning from her college on Thursday afternoon. The governing body of Vaish Education Society, which runs 12 educational institutes in the city, had written to the Railway authorities to make the foot overbridge functional, but to no avail.
Meanwhile, thousands of students and residents have been risking their lives by crossing railway lines to reach educational institutes and colonies as the foot overbridge near the local railway station is lying closed for nearly three months.