Mehtab Ahmed (17), who hailed from Kannauj district, was found hanging in his room No D-307 of hall No IX on the campus on Thursday evening.
After hearing the news, IIT-K director Sanjay Govind Dhande, other officials and students rushed to the Mehtab's room where he used to live alone.
"Born on 18 June 1994, Mehtab Ahmed (Roll No 11397) was a good student. Son of S-I Shaikh Ahmad, Mehtab had joined IIT-Kanpur on July 20 this year. At around 4.45 pm, when the friends knocked at the door and found that the room was locked from inside, they broke open the door only to discover Mehtab hanging from the ceiling fan," said Dhande.
Mehtab's batchmates said he showed no signs of any discomfort till last night and even in the morning and later in the afternoon and talked to them on various topics and issues.
When questioned about the reason which forced the youth to take such an extreme step, Dhande hinted towards Mehtab's relationship with a girl and gave some poems written by him to newspersons.
When further questioned about ragging being a cause, the director ruled out any such possibility.
It is important to mention that Mehtab had written "I am tired of IIT-Kanpur" on the wall of his room with a pencil. He also wrote names of his three childhood friends Shubham Shukla, Ravi Kashyap and Umesh Chauhan on the wall. Dhande said that those were Mehtab's friend staying outside the IIT-K campus.
Dhande also revealed that the student was homesick since he was new to IIT-K but added that he was frequenting his home place in Kannauj as few rail tickets were also recovered from Mehtab's room.
The director informed that Mehtab had appeared in four examinations out of five in the mid-semester, which ended on September 17. He further said that the result is yet to come out.
Dhande said that he could not appear in humanities subject owing to his mother's illness.
No suicide note was recovered and the police are investigating the reason why the student took the extreme step. The police have recovered a mobile phone from Mehtab's room.
After going through the call details, it was learnt that the boy had last spoken to his mother in Kannauj.
"A few hours before his death at around 1:27 in the afternoon Mehtab had made a call to his mother Zulekha Banu in Kannauj from his cell phone informing her that he had badly performed in his physics paper and the duration of the call lasted for nearly 9:40 minutes," investigating officer Jai Singh said while talking to TOI.
The boy seems to be depressed as his mother Zulekha had also visited him at his hostel on September 20, he said. The boy had used a very thin but a fresh and strong nylon rope to hang himself, he said.
"The boy had committed suicide between 2 and 4.30 pm. It would be too early to draw any conclusion and investigations are still underway," said another senior police official.
DIG Rajesh Rai said that the body will be only sent for post-mortem examination in the presence of victim's kin, who had arrived at IIT-K in the evening. The institute authorities did not allow newsperson to enter the hostel.
"There is no evidence to suggest that there was foul play in the incident. We are still investigating. It appears to be a case of suicide," another police official said.
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