IIT-Guwahati student from Karnataka ends life in hostel
GUWAHATI: A first-year BTech student at IIT-Guwahati from was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room on Wednesday.
The deceased, identified as Nagashree SC, 19, was a mechanical engineering student and belonged to Hosanagara near Shivamogga in Karnataka. She had joined the institute in July this year. “Nagashree‘s roommate had left to attend classes in the morning. When she returned, she found the door of the room was locked. No one responded. She alerted the institute‘s security and local police. The security guards broke the door‘s lock and found her hanged inside,” IIT-Guwahati spokesperson Labanu Konwar told TOI.
T he case has been taken up by police. “We found a note inside her personal diary, in which she has asked for forgiveness from her family,” a police officer said. “She wrote she was sorry that she could not live up to the expectations of her family and that no one was responsible for her death,” the officer added.
Police suspect she was not happy with the career option she had opted for. “She had joined recently, so it cannot be linked to academic failure,” the officer said, adding that her family is expected to reach by Thursday. Her body has been sent for postmortem examination.
Police have seized her mobile phone and other notebooks for a handwriting match.
This was the third case of suspected suicide at the institute this year. In April, another BTech student Kanuwar Paul Singh Yadav, from Alwar in Rajasthan, was found dead beside a train track near the Agyathuri railway station, located close to the institute. Last month, a contractual employee at had also reportedly committed suicide.
