Written & Edited : Aditi Mishra
The 21-year-old Odisha native is the second IIT-Hyderabad student to commit suicide in the last three weeks. A second-year B.Tech student who had gone missing on July 19 was eventually discovered dead.
HYDERABAD: Late on Monday, an Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) post-graduate student who was 21 was discovered dead in her dormitory room on the campus in Telangana’s Sangareddy district, according to police.
On July 26, she enrolled in the master’s degree in civil engineering as a first-year postgraduate student. She was discovered hanging in her room by some students at around 10 p.m., according to Sangareddy (rural) Sub-Inspector of Police M Rajesh Naik, who told reporters that they immediately called the police.
“We found a suicide note from her room, written in two lines in Odia, in which the student claimed that no one was to blame for her passing and that she was experiencing extreme mental stress,” Naik said.
The girl claimed that no one was to blame for her passing and that she was under a great deal of mental stress in a two-line Odia suicide note that was discovered in her room, Naik added.
She is the fourth IIT-H student to die by suicide in the past 12 months and the second in the last three weeks.
A second-year engineering student from Telangana’s Nalgonda district vanished from the university on July 17. On July 25, three days later, his body was discovered on a beach in Visakhapatnam.
On August 31, 2022, a graduate student also committed suicide in his on-campus dorm room. On September 6, a second B.Tech. student similarly committed suicide a few days later. This student apparently needed to make up missed coursework.
An IIT-H senior faculty member who declined to be named stated the school had a full-fledged counseling center with psychologists on staff who often offer advice to students on how to handle pressure. Yet, he continued, “Such incidents still occasionally occur.”