Overview
- At IIT Kharagpur, a 21-year-old third-year from Ahmedabad died Saturday after CCTV showed him jump from the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall terrace, police said.
- Police registered an unnatural-death case, sent the body for post-mortem, and reviewed footage while the institute urged students to use round-the-clock counselling.
- The institute said it is cooperating with investigators, formed a fact-finding team, and students called for an open house with the director to press for safer systems.
- At NIT Kurukshetra, four suspected suicides in about two months were followed by Thursday’s hostel death and a Friday night suicide attempt that fellow students stopped.
- NIT Kurukshetra set up a five-member probe on Sunday, replaced hostel wardens, ordered students to vacate hostels by Sunday, and assigned faculty mentors as police continue inquiries.
- Pressure grew beyond campus as an MP asked the education minister for intervention on Sunday, and recent Supreme Court directions require institutes to report such deaths and improve support.