Nagpur: A second year engineering student allegedly ended his life by hanging himself on Tuesday at his home in Baba Farid Nagar. Though no suicide note was found, Mankapur police said the deceased might have committed suicide after he failed to crack IIT entrance exam.
Police have identified the deceased as Ayush Ajaykumar Yadav, 19, who was a student of a reputed engineering college in Gittikhadan area.
On Tuesday morning, Ayush killed himself when his mother, a lecturer in the same college, had gone to Sitabuldi for some shopping, while his father, a Class I officer in railways, was away at work.
Ayush’s mother returned home at 3.30pm. She found the home locked from inside and repeated knocks on the door failed to elicit any response. She then got the door broken with the help of some labourers only to find her son hanging from the ceiling fan. He was rushed to Alexis Hospital on Koradi road where doctors pronounced him brought dead.
PSI Pramod Dighore from Mankapur police said preliminary inquiry with his parents revealed that their only son may have taken the extreme step after he failed to crack the entrance exam of IIT.
“We will check his call details and also inquire with friends and relatives,” said Dighore. Police have registered a case of accidental death, he said.