Overview
- A fellow hosteller found the student unresponsive in a hostel room late at night after entering to retrieve personal belongings.
- Campus security and the campus health‑centre medical team examined him and doctors declared him brought dead at the scene.
- Police identified the deceased as Varun Preet Singh, a B.Tech student from Ping Kang village in Tarn Taran district.
- Authorities have sent the body for a forensic postmortem and officials say the exact cause will be known only after the autopsy report.
- Police say the investigation is ongoing and that preliminary checks found no visible injury marks on the body while family members had not arrived before the initial reporting.