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Mumbai: As student of Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at Powai in Mumbai died by suicide in the hostel campus on Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as Naman Agarwal (21), a second-year B Tech civil engineering student.
He was staying in Hostel No 4 of the Powai campus.
Naman hailed from Pilani in Rajasthan.
The Powai police station has registered an accidental death report (ADR) and investigations are in progress.
The body has been shifted to the Rajawadi Hospital, where the post-mortem would be conducted.
The reason why the boy took the extreme step is not yet known.
This is the third suicide by a student in the past few years in the IIT-B Powai campus.
On 2 August, 2022, Rohit Sinha (22), who hails from Delhi, and pursuing a course in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, died by suicide.
On 12 February, 2023, Darshan Solanki (18) is reported to have jumped from the seventh floor of his hostel building and his body was found by the security guards who saw him in a pool of blood at the IIT-Bombay Powai campus. Darshan from Ahmedabad, who hailed from the SC community, was a first-year student of the B.Tech (Chemical) course. The reason for him taking the extreme step was caste discrimination.