IIT Madras student commits suicide.........

IIT Madras student commits suicide in hostel

In the second such incident in less than a month, a 22-year old student of IIT Madras allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room on Monday, police said.

In the second such incident in less than a month, a 22-year old student of IIT Madras allegedly

 committed suicide in his hostel room on Monday, police said. Rahul Prasad, a final year B

 Tech student from Kerala, was found hanging from a ceiling fan, they said. The incident comes

 barely a month after the suicide of IIT-M M.Tech student Nagendra Kumar Reddy in the hostel

 on September 21. “He (Prasad) was found hanging in his room in Ganga hostel in a nylon rope

 tied to the fan. Today he had an exam but he did not turn up and hence his friends came to his

 room to check and found him hanging,” a police official said. Police retrieved the body by

 breaking open the room door and sent it to a government hospital here for autopsy. Prasad 

hailed from Kollam in Kerala and he was last seen by his friends by around 9 pm yesterday.

 The student’s family members have been informed and they were on their way here, he said.

 “No suicide note was found… a case has been registered and further probe is on. As of now,

 we do not know the reason for the suicide,” he said adding the body had no injuries.