By Asif Rizvi, Mumbai Mirror
Updated: Sep 5, 2018, 05:29 IST
A day after the decomposed body of an M-Tech student who studied IIT Bombay was found in a hotel room he had booked online, the Amboli police have learned that as many as 27 empty strips of tablets suspected to be antidepressants were retrieved from the room where Jaideep Swain checked in on August 31.
Senior Police Inspector of Amboli Police station, Bharat Gaikwad, said, “The body of the deceased was on Tuesday handed over to his family members.”
The police said the family was unaware about him being suicidal, and he used to speak to them almost each day.
He had shifted to Mumbai about a month ago and was living in a hostel on the IIT-B campus.
Jaideep had a couple of friends in IIT, and two of them had even visited the hotel on Monday after learning about his death. They told police they were unaware of any problems he was facing.
The police suspect Jaideep overdosed on the tablets, which could have led to his death, since the body had turned blue and bloated. “The final postmortem reports are still awaited,” a police officer said.
