# CA student dies after injection at Bhilwara medical store, locals torch shop

2026-11-14T16:38:51+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk

Corroboration: 2 independent outlets
Outlets counted: indiatoday.in, yespunjab.com

A 17-year-old Chartered Accountancy student, Prachi Mehta, died on Friday, 13 November 2026, after her condition deteriorated following an injection administered at a medical store in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. The family alleged that operator Ram Prasad gave her an injection instead of prescribed medicines when she visited with a fever on 11 November. Prachi was preparing for her CA examination, which was scheduled for Saturday, 14 November. Angry family members and residents gathered outside Lav-Kush Medical Store around 3.30 pm on Saturday, set fire to its shutter and pelted stones, demanding the operator’s arrest and cancellation of the store’s licence. The store was sealed and Prasad reportedly went absconding. Subhash Nagar SHO Kailash Bishnoi said the police will act on the family’s complaint. Councillor Jagdish Gurjar alleged the store had faced earlier complaints. Protesters also claimed four others had died at the establishment, though these allegations were not independently verified.

## Indian Opinion Analysis

Both outlets report the same facts: the family’s account of the injection, the death in Udaipur, the protest and the store’s sealing. The differences lie in emphasis. Yes Punjab News carries the protesters’ unverified claim of four previous deaths and the allegation that the operator used political connections to intimidate people, giving the story a more charged local frame. India Today omits those claims and adds a parallel incident from Punjab’s Ludhiana, contextualising the Bhilwara case within a wider pattern of injection-related negligence. A reader combining both accounts gets the core event plus the unresolved questions: the family’s allegations remain untested, the operator is absconding, and the police have said they will investigate after the post-mortem and the family’s complaint.

## Coverage

Coverage: 2 sources, 1 neutral, 1 sensationalist
- yespunjab.com (sensationalist) <https://yespunjab.com/rajasthan-medical-store-set-on-fire-after-17-year-old-ca-student-dies-following-injection/>
  Leads with arson, includes unverified claims of four prior deaths
- indiatoday.in (neutral report) <https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/17-year-old-prachi-mehta-death-given-wrong-injection-luv-kush-medical-store-bhilwara-rajasthan-ludhiana-man-injection-death-3039084-2026-11-14?utm_source=rss>
  Straight chronology, omits unverified claims, adds context of Punjab case

This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry.

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Image: photograph. Source: https://yespunjab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/fire-broke.jpg.

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