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.
What the police said
The Delhi Police are investigating the incident. A day after the incident, police registered a case of abetment of suicide and initiated an investigation. 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. Police officers said their further enquiry revealed that at around 8 am, the student entered the IIT Delhi campus through the main gate. 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.
Because the campus comes under its territorial jurisdiction, the call was transferred to Kishangarh police station.
“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.
During the enquiry, the dead person, aged 31, was identified as a student of the M.Sc. “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.
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.
