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20-year-old pupil dies by suicide in IIT Guwahati 

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By PTI

GUWAHATI: A 20-year-old pupil, hailing from Andhra Pradesh, was discovered hanging in his hostel room on the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, police stated on Monday.

The pupil, recognized as Gudla Mahesh Sai Raj, was a fifth-semester B Tech pupil in laptop science and engineering and is alleged to have dedicated suicide on Sunday as a consequence of ”psychological stress,” police stated.

Investigations are on to determine the precise reason behind the dying, an official of the Amingaon police station stated.

The physique has been despatched for postmortem and will probably be handed to the household after that.

IITG in an announcement claimed the physique of a younger man was present in one of many hostel buildings and has been “identified as a former student of the institute”.

According to an IIT supply, the scholar was terminated from his course as a consequence of “poor academic performance”.

The institute has knowledgeable the household and so they have reached the campus, the assertion stated, including that IIT Guwahati expresses its deepest condolences to the household presently of profound grief.

“We will cooperate with the police investigation and will also commission an internal investigation on this matter,” the assertion added.

GUWAHATI: A 20-year-old pupil, hailing from Andhra Pradesh, was discovered hanging in his hostel room on the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, police stated on Monday.

The pupil, recognized as Gudla Mahesh Sai Raj, was a fifth-semester B Tech pupil in laptop science and engineering and is alleged to have dedicated suicide on Sunday as a consequence of ”psychological stress,” police stated.

Investigations are on to determine the precise reason behind the dying, an official of the Amingaon police station stated.

The physique has been despatched for postmortem and will probably be handed to the household after that.

IITG in an announcement claimed the physique of a younger man was present in one of many hostel buildings and has been “identified as a former student of the institute”.

According to an IIT supply, the scholar was terminated from his course as a consequence of “poor academic performance”.

The institute has knowledgeable the household and so they have reached the campus, the assertion stated, including that IIT Guwahati expresses its deepest condolences to the household presently of profound grief.

“We will cooperate with the police investigation and will also commission an internal investigation on this matter,” the assertion added.