IIT Guwahati student from Kerala found dead
The Hindu
Parents of the deceased Design Department student are on their way to the city, the institute said in a statement
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A student of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) was found dead in his hostel room on September 16 night.
An officer at the Amingaon police station said the student, identified as Surya Narayan Premkishore, was from Kerala. The IIT-G is in the Amingaon area across the Brahmaputra River from Guwahati.
“He was found hanging in his hostel room. We have taken the body for post mortem,” the officer said.
“It is with great sadness that IIT Guwahati announces the untimely passing away of a final year undergraduate student of Design Department on the campus. The institute has informed the parents of the student and they are on their way to Guwahati,” a statement from the IIT-G administrative office said.
There have been several cases of IIT-G students dying by suicide over a decade.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development had on December 2, 2019, told Parliament that the IIT-G reported 14 student deaths, including suicides, in the last five years. it was the highest number of deaths in any of the 23 IITs for the given period, the ministry said.