IIT Delhi student dies by suicide on campus, second such case since March: Police

The police control room received a call regarding a student who jumped from the sixth floor of the Lecture Hall Complex at the IIT Delhi campus.

A 31-year-old Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) student pursuing a master’s in science allegedly died by suicide on the south Delhi campus on Saturday morning, police said.

Police officers said their further enquiry revealed that at around 8 am, the student entered the IIT Delhi campus through the main gate. (Representational Image (RAJ K RAJ /HT))

Deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Amit Goel said that at around 8:33 am on Saturday, the police control room received a call regarding a student who jumped from the sixth floor of the Lecture Hall Complex at the IIT Delhi campus. The call was transferred to Kishangarh police station because the campus comes under its territorial jurisdiction.

“A police team rushed to the scene, and the injured person was shifted to the IIT Delhi campus hospital, where the attending doctor declared him brought dead. During the enquiry, the dead person, aged 31, was identified as a student of the M.Sc. Physics department at the IIT Delhi,” said Goel, adding that the crime scene investigation team and forensic science laboratory (FSL) team inspected the incident spot and collected evidence.

What the police said

Police officers said their further enquiry revealed that at around 8 am, the student entered the IIT Delhi campus through the main gate. “He subsequently went to the Lecture Hall Complex, took a lift to the 6th floor and jumped from the front side of the building towards the Lecture Hall Complex,” an officer said.

An IIT Delhi official, requesting anonymity, said, “A tragic incident has happened. The Delhi Police are investigating the incident.”

DCP Goel said, “During the enquiry conducted so far, no apparent injury marks other than those attributable to the fall have come to notice. No suicide note has been found. A mobile phone was recovered from the pocket of the deceased and will be examined as per due procedure.”

“The counselling records and other relevant information from the institute are being obtained, and the facts are being verified. Further legal action is being taken as per law,” he added.

Second alleged suicide at IIT Delhi campus since March

This is the second alleged suicide at the IIT Delhi campus since March, when a 19-year-old first-year BTech student died by suicide at his apartment inside the campus. A day after the incident, police registered a case of abetment of suicide and initiated an investigation.

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