The police on Wednesday said that a 19-year-old student of a nursing college in Navi Mumbai allegedly died by suicide after its woman principal passed casteist slurs and humiliated him, reported news agency PTI.

A First Information Report (FIR) on charges of suicide abetment was registered against the principal on Tuesday in connection with the incident which took place on June 3, following a complaint by the victim's mother, they said.

The student, belonging to a Scheduled Caste and resident of Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, was in the first year of the BSc Nursing course at the private college located at Poyange village in Panvel area of Navi Mumbai, reported PTI.