CHENNAI: A final year ocean engineering student at IIT-Madras committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room on Saturday.
The student has been identified as Shahal Kormath, 23, hailing from
Kerala. He didn't leave any suicide note.
According to police, Shahal committed suicide as he feared he would not be allowed to appear for the final year exam since he had attendance shortage. The IIT-M administration had recently informed his parents about his attendance shortage.
Read the full statement issued by IIT-Madras
On Saturday morning, Shahal's friend knocked on the door of his room. As there was no response, the student informed hostel warden Raguram Reddy, who alerted the
Kotturpuram police. The police broke open the door and saw his body hanging from a ceiling fan.
The body was sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital (GRH) for autopsy. The police registered a case under Section 174 of CrPC (unnatural death).
On being informed, his brother was coming to Chennai from Bengaluru to receive the body, police said.
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