IIT-Delhi student commits suicide
TNN Aug 4, 2011, 11.22pm IST
NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old IIT-Delhi student allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday afternoon inside the institute's premises. The deceased, Dinesh Ahlawat, was a resident of Rohtak in Haryana and was a first-year chemical engineering student.
"We received a call around 5:30pm about the incident. We found the boy hanging by a rope from the fan. We then sent his body for post mortem. Further investigations are on," said a senior police officer.
The deceased had joined IIT around 20 days back, when the session commenced. The police did not find any suicide note in his Zanskar hostel room. Cops said that they are questioning his friends and other hostel residents to find out the possible reason for the suicide. The police were informed about the incident by IIT officials around 5:15pm. The institute's officials told the cops they had no clue why Ahlawat committed the act as he had just joined the institute. "It appears the death occurred sometime between 3pm and 5pm as the boy was last seen around 2:30pm," said a police officer.
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IIT-Delhi student hangs self in hostel room - India Today
He appeared "to be happy" and showed "no signs of depression". The internal inquiry report on the alleged suicide of an IIT-Delhi student on August 4 has ruled out ragging or academic pressure as the cause behind the incident.
Dinesh Ahlawat (19), a first year student of chemical engineering from Rohtak, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his room in Zanskar Hostel by a few of his friends.
The fact that the internal inquiry report submitted by a four-member committee on August 11 fails to pin-point the cause of Ahlawat's death has made the case all the more complex and baffling.
However, sources say Ahlawat's reason for taking the extreme step was probably based on a flimsy and false assumption.
"Ahlawat's admission to IIT was provisional as he had failed in mathematics in his Class XII Board examination. It seems he was scared of a similar performance in the compartment exam and he cut his life short before checking his results," an IIT official, who did not wish to be identified, said.
Ironically, it turned out that Ahlawat had scored 90 per cent in the compartment exam.
The CBSE announced the compartment examination results on August 3. Though the results were available online, teachers at IIT believe that Ahlawat did not know his score even till the next day when he committed suicide.
"He was surfing the Internet for almost ten hours on August 3 and a little over three hours on August 4. We scanned the history of websites he visited on both days and not once did the CBSE website figure among them," a source said.
"In fact, what reinforces our belief that he did not know he had scored 90 per cent in the compartment exam is the fact that on August 4, at 4.03 pm, he received an SMS from his sister asking for his roll number to check his result. Within seven minutes of receiving that SMS he killed himself," the source added.
In the absence of a suicide note, the above reasons and the circumstantial evidence have found many takers in the institute.
Suicides at the IITs are not new. This year there have been six suicide cases already; the latest being reported from IIT Patna on Thursday.
Notwithstanding the chain of events which have been put forward to explain away the extreme step taken by Ahlawat, the incident has left many questions unanswered.
For instance, how did a bright student like Ahlawat get zero marks in mathematics in the Board examination? One is also forced to ask why Ahlawat failed to check his compartment results even a day after it was declared.
"It quite difficult to understand how he performed so badly in mathematics, especially when he did pretty well in the mathematics section of the joint entrance examination (JEE)," a professor at IIT-Delhi said.
According to his friends in the institute, Ahlawat had secured rank 1097 in the JEE. Mail Today could not verify this with the institute authorities independently.
Another question that arises is why the internal inquiry report of IIT does not openly point at the compartment exam being a cause of stress to the student.
"We do not have all the information regarding that issue and hence the report doesn't mention it. We're hoping that the police investigation will throw more light on that," IIT-Delhi director Surendra Prasad said.
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Cops clueless over IIT-Delhi student's suicide
Posted by: Nabanita M Published: Friday, August 5, 2011, 14:31 [IST]
New Delhi, Aug 5: An IIT-Delhi student, 20-years old on Wednesday afternoon, Aug 4 committed suicide inside the college premises. The deceased, Dinesh Ahlawat, was a resident of Rohtak in Haryana and was a first-year chemical engineering student. The deceased was a new-comer, who joined IIT around 20 days back, when the session commenced. Though no suicide note was found after his death, the cops said that they are questioning his friends and other hostel residents to find out the possible reason for the suicide.
The police were informed about the incident by IIT officials around 5:15pm. The institute's officials told the cops they had no clue why Ahlawat committed the act as he had just joined the institute. "We received a call around 5:30pm about the incident. We found the boy hanging by a rope from the fan. We then sent his body for post mortem. Further investigations are on," said a senior police officer. "It appears the death occurred sometime between 3pm and 5pm as the boy was last seen around 2:30pm," said a police officer.
Read more at: http://news.oneindia.in/2011/08/05/cops-clueless-over-iit-delhi-student-suicide.html
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Shalini Narayan : New Delhi, Sat Feb 11 2012, 09:43 hrs
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Seven months after Dinesh Ahlawat, a first-year chemical engineering student, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in an IIT Delhi hostel, his father has filed a case of abetment to suicide, saying ragging by seniors forced his son to end his life.
Dinesh died two days before his 19th birthday. His father Yashveer Singh, who teaches science at a school in Rohtak, alleged that Dinesh spoke to him twice and complained that he had been ragged by seniors.
When his body was found on August 4 in the Zanskar hostel, police ruled out ragging as a reason for the alleged suicide and said he may have had "adjustment problems and homesickness".
While investigating officers said the case was one of suicide, Dinesh's death remained a mystery since he was found hanging with his hands tied with a handkerchief and legs bound with his vest. Police now say the probe will continue, that the autopsy concluded it was "suicidal hanging" with no external injury marks on the body.
Yashveer Singh appealed before the Saket court, saying he wasn't satisfied with the response he got from the institute or the police. The court directed police to register a case. A case under IPC Section 306 — abetment of suicide — has been registered.
In his statement to the police, Singh said: "Students had to break open the door to get in and lower my son's body. He was rushed to hospital where he was declared brought dead. On 30.7.2011, he told me he was ragged by his seniors. I spoke to him on August 1 and 2 when he spoke to the rest of the family too. Later, I found out that on August 3, seniors had ragged the juniors."
"I strongly suspect that it was because of this (ragging) that my son felt humiliated and took his life," Singh said.
He told Newsline: "My son called me and told me that he would be coming home for his birthday... The college administration has hidden the real issue from us. Otherwise, why was my son's body discovered by three seniors? What were seniors doing in his hostel at that time?"
Shashi Mathur, Dean of Students at IIT Delhi, said: "We are as confused about the matter as anyone else. He was a bright student, a very nice boy. An inquiry committee was constituted which stated that there was no element of ragging. The institute carries out regular sessions on anti-ragging awareness. I lead the team that goes around the 12 hostels and counsel students about the Supreme Court ruling. It is mandatory for students to attend this."
Chhaya Sharma, DCP (South), said: "We received orders from the court under Section 156 (3) CrPc and we have complied with it."
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