A student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati hailing from Andhra Pradesh was on Monday evening found hanging in his hostel room on the campus, police said.
The parents of Pannem Pavan Siddardha called up his friends at IIT-G around 5 p.m. asking them to connect him to them as Siddardha was not picking up his phone, sources said.
On entering his room, the friends found Pannem hanging from the ceiling fan. They rushed him to the campus hospital where he was declared brought dead, the sources said.
Siddardha was a final year student of Electronics and Communications B.Tech programme and a boarder of Umium hostel in a single seater room.
The body was kept in the morgue of a nearby hospital and autopsy will be conducted on Tuesday after his parents arrive from A.P., they said.