New Delhi: A second-year undergraduate pupil at Indian Insititute of Technology (IIT) Madras died by suicide on Friday, information company PTI quoted Chennai police as saying. According to a police officer, the scholar was discovered useless in his campus hostel room, and a case has been filed and an investigation is underway. “He did not respond, and then the door to the hostel room was broken open, and he was discovered hanging,” the officer stated. According to the officer, preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased pupil could have had some points stemming from his love for a girl. On March 14, an IIT-Madras third-year B-Tech pupil died by suicide. On February 14, one other IIT-M post-graduate engineering pupil died by suicide. He, too, was found useless in his hostel room.
“The body was taken for autopsy and a preliminary investigation is underway on the IIT Madras campus,” information company ANI quoted an officer of Chennai Police as saying.
The IIT-Madras, which conveyed its condolence to the bereaved, stated: “We are deeply anguished to convey the untimely passing away of an undergraduate student from the Chemical Engineering Department in the afternoon of 21 April 2023 in his hostel room. The Institute has lost one of its own, and the professional community has lost a good student. The reason for the demise is unknown. Police are investigating. The parents have been informed.”Â
The Institute stated it’s taking all doable measures to proactively determine and assist college students beneath stress. “We will continue to keep strengthening these measures.”
Fourth Suicide Case At IIT-Madras Since 2018
This is the fourth case of a pupil suicide reported this yr from IIT Madras and the twelfth since 2018. Earlier, on April 2, a PhD pupil of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, died by suicide in his room in Tamil Nadu`s Velachery, police advised media. The pupil was a local of West Bengal and was aged 32.
