Chandigarh: A Panjab University law student has allegedly died by suicide in its hostel, police said. The deceased student, Chatanniya Singh, was a resident of Panipat, Haryana, NDTV reported.
He committed suicide on Saturday at one of the hostels of University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS).
Police were investigating the circumstances that may have led to the incident. About a week before, another 31-year-old student of the MSc Physics Department at IIT Delhi had died after allegedly jumping from a building on the institute’s campus.
Police was alerted about the incident through a PCR call around 8:33 am at Kishangarh police station on Saturday. Police personnel reached the spot and shifted the injured student to the IIT Delhi campus hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
The Crime Team and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) Team were called to the spot for inspection and collection of evidence, police said, as per the NDTV report.
Cops have found that the victim had entered the IIT Delhi campus through the main gate at around 8:00 am. He subsequently went to the Lecture Hall Complex, took a lift to the sixth floor and allegedly jumped from the front side of the building.
