Overview
- The family's domestic help found the door locked and police forced entry on Friday to discover 23-year-old Anand hanging from a ceiling fan in his rented house in Govind Nagar, Kanpur.
- Officers recovered a handwritten five-line note in which he apologised to his father and wrote that he had tried nearly 50 times to secure a government job.
- Anand had earned a gold medal after completing a BTech in electrical engineering in 2024 and had repeatedly prepared for recruitment exams for the Railways, SSC, banks and the education department without success.
- Police sent the body for post-mortem, handed it to the family for last rites, and say the investigation is ongoing with a preliminary view that prolonged exam failures likely contributed to severe distress.
- The victim's father told one outlet that Anand was 'addicted to online games,' a detail not corroborated elsewhere, and the case highlights the heavy pressure around government recruitment exams and the need for better mental-health support for aspirants.