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more-inA final year student of IIT- Madras, hailing from Palakkad, Kerala, committed suicide in the hostel on Saturday. According to the police, the victim was a final year student of the B.Tech-M.Tech (Dual Degree) Naval Architecture programme at the institute. “This is indeed an irreparable loss to not just the institute and the family but to society as a whole,” IIT-M said in a statement. The Kotturpuram police sent his body to the Government Royapettah Hospital for post-mortem and registered a case of unnatural death. Investigation revealed that the student was not regular to class..