MTech student commits suicide on Banaras Hindu University campus

Updated on: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

An engineering student of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of his room in Dhanraj Giri Hostel on varsity campus on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Satyendra Singh, a student of MTech (VI semester).

According to reports, Satyendra, a native of Sadar Bazaar in Jhansi district, lived in room 14 of Dhanraj Giri Hostel. On Tuesday morning, he and some other hostel inmates had gone to see the Technex-2012, an annual exhibition organised on the university campus. They returned hostel in the afternoon after which, the inmates reached the mess hall for lunch. Satyendra asked his roommate Prasanna to reach the mess hall saying that he would come after some time.

But when he did not reach the mess, Prasanna and other hostel inmates reached his room where they found the door locked from inside. Despite knowing repeatedly, they got no response. Thereafter, they broke open the gate and found the body of Satyendra hanging from the ceiling. They immediately rushed him to the SSL Hospital where doctors declared him dead.

chief proctor of BHU, H C S Rathore said that a suicide note was recovered from Satyendra's room in which he had written, "Papa iske liye mai responsible hoo. Aap dukhi mut hoyiyega." Rathore said that Satyendra was a meritorious student and had a good reputation so it was not clear as why he committed suicide.

He said that the body had been handed over to Lanka police and the family of the deceased had been informed about the incident. Though the reason behind the suicide could not become clear, hostel inmates were heard saying that Satyendra had become disturbed after January 13 incident in which a BSc-III year student, Monika Verma, had committed suicide in a similar way in her room of a private hostel in Nariya area.

They said that on seeing Monika's body, Satyendra had fainted after which he was also taken for medical counseling.

Times of India

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