Let me sleep! said a suicide note found in hostel room of IIT-Kharagpur student

Kharagpur: Let me sleep! These were the words that the boy wrote before ending his life inside the premises of IIT-Kharagpur hostel.

The body of a 22-year-old engineering student at IIT-Kharagpur was found hanging inside his hostel room in the campus on Friday night. The deceased was recognised as Nidhin who was a fourth year aerospace engineering student from Kerala.

The police said that the dead body has been taken into custody and sent for the post mortem. The officials stated that they were called upon by the hostel authorities after Nidhin’s alarm clock kept on ringing and woke everyone near his room but not him.

According his friends, Nidhin used to set an alarm to get up early in the morning and study and Friday morning was no different, apart from the fact that the alarm woke up others in the hostel except Nidhin.

What had happened:

• The continuous ring of the alarm made the hostel authorities suspicious.
• The authorities broke open one of the window panes to find his body hanging from the ceiling of his ground floor room at the Nehru Hall.
• The police was soon informed and later broke open the door to seize the body.
• IIT-Kharagpur has informed the family of the student and police have sent the body for post-mortem.
• The matter is being investigated.

It could be recalled that this is the second such incident at IIT-Kharagpur in two months. Last month, the body of a student from the electrical engineering department was found dead on the railway track close to the campus.