New Delhi, May 31: A 29-year-old research scholar from the IIT allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday night by hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room inside the campus. Police have recovered no suicide note.
Officials say that the woman, Manila Devak, was in the final year of pursuing her PhD. She has been residing at the Nalanda hostel at the campus.
Police had received a call around 8pm about a suicide at the hostel from the warden. Another hostel resident gone to visit Devak and found her body.
Though the apparent cause of suicide was unclear, cops suspect depression over her studies to be the reason. Her husband and in-laws stay in Bhopal and have been informed about the incident. The body has been sent for an autopsy to the AIIMS mortuary and an inquest is being conducted under section 174 of CrPC.
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