MSc student commits suicide

'Deceased is not a student of JNU'

A 25-year-old MSc student hanged himself at a private hostel in south Delhi’s Ber Sarai on Thursday.

Dushyant Dikshit hailed from Dhaneta village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district and was preparing for civil services examination.

The boys in the adjoining rooms claimed that Dushyant was a Jawaharlal Nehru University, but the university denied it, police said.

An police probe has revealed that he had completed a project from JNU last year.
Police control room got a call about the incident at 9.40 am on Thursday. The caller said a student had committed suicide at Guardian Hostel in Ber Sarai.

A team from Vasant Vihar police station and the police control room unit reached room number 602 on the fourth floor of the hostel. Dushyant lived alone in the room.
“Dushyant was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his room. A suicide note has been recovered which mentions family issues. Further facts are being verified,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Prem Nath.

His body has been preserved for post-mortem at AIIMS. Police have also informed Dushyant’s parents and recorded the statement of students staying in adjoining rooms.
Police have ruled out foul play and no FIR has been filed. A team from Vasant Vihar police station is conducting a probe under section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
“The JNU administration expresses deep condolences to the family members of Dushyant. It is clarified that the deceased is not a student of the University,” a JNU spokesperson said.

According to police, a detailed enquiry revealed that he was a student of MSc (Physics) in Bareilly’s Invertis University.

“For further details, we contacted Invertis University’s assistant professor Dr Nitesh Poddar,” said Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Taj Hassan.

Dushyant had got a reference from Poddar for JNU’s assistant professor Dr R K Brojen Singh for the completion of his project. Singh is associated with JNU’s School of Computational and Integrative Sciences.

“Dushyant completed his project from January to July 2015. But he was not an enrolled student of JNU,” Hassan added. JNU administration has told the investigating team that such projects are conducted directly by the faculty.

Poddar and Singh know each other since their student days at Jamia Millia Islamia, where they did MSc (Physics). Singh was Poddar’s senior.

Several documents have been recovered from Dushyant’s room which mention his areas of interest and specialisation. They related to systems biology, complex networks, systems, stochastic dynamics and nonlinear dynamics.