Overview
- Anju Kumari, a junior technician at IIT Kanpur, was found dead by hanging inside her on-campus accommodation on Saturday.
- Police forced open the locked door after she did not respond to knocks and calls, and she was later declared dead at the institute’s hospital.
- Forensic teams collected evidence from the room, seizing her mobile phone and a personal diary of roughly 350 pages for examination.
- Officers say she had been on a phone call with her fiancé during which an argument was reported, and a recent diary entry notes she felt hurt after being scolded.
- The body has been sent for post-mortem as investigators review all angles, with reports differing on her age and officials noting a prior struggle with depression after her brother’s suicide.