Bengal student 'suicide' at IIT - Telegraph India

Bengal student 'suicide' at IIT

Kishore Talukdar and Avishek Sengupta

Borjhar (Guwahati), April 30: An IIT Guwahati student from Bengal was found hanging in his hostel room last night, the suspected exam-eve suicide leaving institute officials troubled over why someone with a "very good" academic performance would kill himself. Sarkar Intekhab Alam, described as "brilliant" by the IIT's director, was a second-semester student of MSc in physics. Police said the 22-year-old from Murshidabad left behind a "suicide note written in Bengali on the wall" that blamed no one for his death. Alam, who would have appeared for semester exams today, was found by his hostel mates hanging from the ceiling fan of his room in the institute's Umiam Hostel around 10 last night. "He was okay till last evening. He went to his room for a nap and asked his roommates to call him before dinner, which is generally served around 10pm. When his friends went to call him, they found him in that condition," said Labanu Konwar, the tech school's PRO. IIT sources said the door to his room was unlocked. Alam was rushed to the Guwahati Neurological Research Centre where he was declared dead on arrival. Police and forensic officials arrived at the hostel around noon today. "We saw a suicide note written in Bengali on the wall of the deceased's room," said Rana Bhuyan, in charge of Amingaon police station. The IIT's director, Gautam Biswas, said Alam was a "brilliant" student. "His cumulative performance index was above 7.5 (out of 10), which is very good. He did not have to take any pressure for this exam. We are troubled by his demise. We have teams of faculty, professional and student counsellors. All of them do routine checks and counselling sessions." Bornali Das, psychosocial consultant at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, said the more brilliant a student is, the higher the social pressure. "They tend to internalise this pressure and the depression grows within them." Alam's body was flown to Calcutta tonight after two of his relatives reached Guwahati. During last year's semester exams, Ujjwal Shailabh, a 24-year-old from Bihar, had allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the four-storey hostel.

IIT-Ghy student found dead - Nagaland Post

IIT-Ghy student found dead

GUWAHATI, SEP 18 (IANS) Published on 18 Sep. 2015 11:29 PM IST A final-year student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) was on Friday found dead near his hostel, police said. Security guards at the institute found the body near the IIT-G’s Brahmaputra Hostel. The staff of the institute later informed police. “We have sent the body for post-mortem examination. It is difficult to say at this moment if it is a suicide or a murder. We are waiting for the post-mortem report,” a police official said.  An IIT-G spokesman said the student was identified as Ujjal Shailabh from Bihar. “He was a final-year B.Tech student of mathematics and computing stream. We have informed his family members about the tragic incident,” the spokesman said. Last year, two IIT-G students had committed suicide inside the institute.

IITian found dead - Assam Times

IITian found dead

Submitted by AT News on Fri, 18/09/2015 - 19:26

A B Tech student is believed to have committed suicide in the morning leaving the Guwahati IIT in utter shocked on Friday.
Identified as Ujjal Salil, the body of student from Bihar was found at the campus early in the morning. The inmate of the Brahmaputra Hostel was suspected to have jumped to the ground.

Police recovered the body and investigation is going on. This is the third such tragic incident at the country’s premier seat of science and technology in Guwahati during the last 12 months.

Last year in the same month i

Submitted by Narender Singh on Fri, 18/09/2015 - 21:19

Last year in the same month i.e. on 14/09/2014 our son Tushar Yadav was also found dead behind his room in Kameng Hostel, before we reached there from Delhi IIT Guwahati declared it as suicide. Same thing happened in today"s case.  After our strong oppose case of conspiracy and murder was registered since then Police and IIT Guwahatidid nothing at yet, we at our level providing evidences, activities of suspects but all in vain. You the media also continuously describing as suicide why? On that day you the media failed to did your duty to find out facts then wrote such thing. If you did that in so hurry then why not you published the story of conspiracy and murder. This IIT has continue taking life of young engineers no media no ngo no political system no UGC no NHRC no Court take notice of it. We the grieved parents of Tushar can understand the loss that the family of Ujjal Shailabh have to bear through whole life, what else we can say   Narender Singh ( Gurgaon)

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Suicide whiff in IIT student death - The Telegraph

Suicide whiff in IIT student death

PANKAJ SARMA

Guwahati, Sept. 18: An IIT Guwahati student was found dead near a hostel on the campus today, with the preliminary police probe suggesting suicide. The body of Ujjwal Shailabh, 24, who was from Bihar, was found face down in a pool of blood near the four-storey Brahmaputra Hostel around 11.30am by some students, said Labanu Konwar, the assistant registrar (public relations) of IIT Guwahati. The students reported the matter to the IIT authorities, who informed the police. IIT sources said Ujjwal, a final-semester student of BTech in mathematics and computing, was depressed because of poor academic performance. The police suspect the student, who stayed on the ground floor of the hostel, might have jumped from the roof. No suicide note has been found in the hostel room of Ujjwal, who hailed from Triveniganj town in Bihar's Supoul district, the police said. This is the third suspected suicide at IIT Guwahati in the past year. Tushad Yadav, a first-semester electronics and communication student, and Shoaib Ahmed, a second-semester MSc student, were found dead on the campus in September last year and March this year, respectively. While Tushad was suspected to have jumped to death, Shoaib was found hanging in his hostel room. The officer in charge of North Guwahati police station, M.M. Mahanta, said: "The preliminary investigation suggests that Ujjwal committed suicide. Students close to him have said he was depressed for some time." The IIT sources said Ujjwal's academic performance "had dipped" and he could be depressed because of that. Assistant registrar Konwar said Ujjwal's family had been informed and his relatives were expected to reach IIT Guwahati tomorrow. Ujjwal had taken admission to the IIT in 2009. The IIT sources said that since the institute was set up in 1995, "six or seven" students were suspected to have committed suicide. "We don't have the exact number of unnatural deaths," Konwar said. "All I can say is that this is the third instance in the past year." He said IIT Guwahati had four psychologists to counsel students. The institute has more than 5,500 students.

IIT student commits suicide in Guwahati - Asian Age

IIT student commits suicide in Guwahati

Sep 19, 2015 - Manoj Anand | Guwahati

A final-year B.Tech student, Ujjawal Shailabh, on Friday committed suicide by jumping from the top of his hostel. In what has set alarm bells ringing, this was the fourth incident of suicide since March 2014 at IIT Guwahati.

The security guards of the IIT spotted a body in the backyard of Brahmaputra Hostel, which was later, identified to be of Ujjawal Shailabh who hails from Tribeniganj in Supaul district of Bihar. The police said that preliminary investigation has indicated it to be a case of suicide as student is suspected to have jumped from fourth floor of the hostel.

The police said that it took time in identifying the body as it was damaged beyond recognition. A team of forensic experts has gathered the evidence for further investigation. The spokesperson of IIT Guwahati Labanu Konwar said that security guards noticed the body at about 11.30 am and informed the administration, which rus-hed its chief medical officer to the spot. However, doctors found him dead.

He said that Ujjawal Shailabh had joined the IIT in 2009. He was appearing for his B.Tech final examination this year. It is significant that a student S.M. Shohaib Ahmed, a second semester M.Sc. student of Mathematics department, had committed suicide on March 11, 2014 in the hostel room. It was followed by another incident in the IIT Guwahati on September 15, 2014 when a first-semester student Tushar Yadav committed suicide.

IIT-Guwahati student found dead - TNN

IIT-Guwahati student found dead

IANS | Sep 18, 2015, 07.16 PM IST

GUWAHATI: A final-year student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) was on Friday found dead near his hostel, police said. 

Security guards at the institute found the body near the IIT-G's Brahmaputra Hostel. The staff of the institute later informed police. 

"We have sent the body for post-mortem examination. It is difficult to say at this moment if it is a suicide or a murder. We are waiting for the post-mortem report," a police official said. 

An IIT-G spokesman said the student was identified as Ujjal Shailabh from Bihar. 

"He was a final-year B.Tech student of mathematics and computing stream. We have informed his family members about the tragic incident," the spokesman said. Last year, two IIT-G students had committed suicide inside the institute.

Guwahati IIT student found dead - Indian Express

Guwahati IIT student found dead

This is the third incident of a student’s death in IIT Guwahati in the past one year.

Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap | Guwahati | Updated: September 18, 2015 8:18 pm

The body of a B Tech final year student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G) was found outside a hostel here on Friday morning with the police still trying to find out the exact cause of the death. The body has been identified to be that of Ujjwal Shailabh, who hailed from Triveniganj, a town in Supaul district of Bihar.

Police said the body of the student was found lying face downward on the grass outside Brahmaputra Hostel early Friday morning, with the authorities immediately informing the police about it. He was a boarder of the third floor in the Brahmaputra Hostel. A case of unnatural death has been registered with the North Guwahati police station.

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“We have carried out preliminary investigations, while a magistrate has conducted the inquest. A forensic team also examined the body and the location, while the post-mortem examination will be carried out after his parents arrive tomorrow,” a senior police official of Kamrup district said.

Sources in IIT-G said the student had joined the B Tech class in 2009 but had yet to clear a couple of papers for the final examination. This is the third incident of a student’s death in IIT Guwahati in the past one year. While one Tushar Yadav had reportedly committed suicide in September last year, another student called T Parameswar Rao had reportedly committed suicide in December 2014.

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