19-YEAR-OLD MALAYALI STUDENT KILLS SELF INSIDE IIT-MADRAS CAMPUS
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Galatta | 02:05 PM
In what seems to be becoming a common incident, an IIT-Madras student took her own life, allegedly over low academic performance. Since December 2018, this is the fifth case of suicide at IIT Madras.
According to sources, the girl from Kerala was enrolled in an integrated MA programme in a Humanities subject. The first year student had reportedly missed several calls from her mother on Sunday, following which the mother called some other students who stayed at the same hostel. When their repeated knocks failed to elicit a reply, the students informed the hostel warden and, with the help of security personnel, forced the room open to find the girl dead.
The Kotturpuram Police, which was informed, registered a case and took the body to the government Royapettah hospital for autopsy. Though it is being widely considered a suicide, no suicide note has been recovered from the girl's room. Inquiries were on to find out if there may be any other reason behind the death.
In September, S Shahal Kormath, a final-year Ocean Engineering student from Palakkad, had committed suicide. Earlier in January, Gopal Babu, a first-year M Tech student from Uttar Pradesh, committed suicide in his room. A PhD scholar, Ranjana Kumari from Jharkhand, also committed suicide recently. In December 2018, Aditi Simha, an assistant professor at IIT, committed suicide in the staff quarters on the campus.
