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By India Today News Desk: A second-year B Tech student pursuing Chemical Engineering was found hanging in a hostel room at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai on Friday. If police confirm, this will be the fourth case of suicide at the premier institute this year.
The IIT Madras has repeatedly said it has strived to improve and sustain the wellbeing of students/scholars, faculty and staff on campus, while constantly evaluating the various support systems in place. But, according to the institute, the post-Covid environment has been “challenging”.
Following the high number of suicide deaths on the campus this year, IIT Madras constituted a standing Institute Internal Inquiry Committee, including elected student representatives to look into such incidents. But two more suspected suicide deaths were reported soon after.
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The first student suicide incident at IIT Madras this year was reported in February when a 24-year-old post-graduate student was found dead in his hostel room. Steven Sunny was a second-year M Sc student from Maharashtra.
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On March 14, a 20-year-old student, a resident of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, was found hanging in his hostel room. Sreesai was a third-year B Tech student of the electrical engineering department.
On March 31, a 32-year-old PhD student at IIT Madras too died by suicide in his room. He was from West Bengal. The police said that hours before Sachin Kumar Jain was found hanging in his room, he had posted a WhatsApp, “Sorry, I am not good enough”.
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The police said preliminary investigation indicated that the student may have had issues a “focusing on his studies and completing his academic tasks”.
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On Friday, the institute in a media statement said an undergraduate student from the Chemical Engineering Department was found hanging in his hostel room.
“IIT Madras is taking all possible measures to proactively identify and help students under stress. We will continue to keep strengthening these measures,” the institute said after the demise of Kedhar Suresh, a second-year B Tech student.
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