Attendance shortage: IIT-M student kills self

  • | Saturday | 22nd September, 2018

As there was no response, the student informed hostel warden Raguram Reddy, who alerted the Kotturpuram police. CHENNAI: A final year ocean engineering student at IIT-Madras committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room on Saturday.The student has been identified as Shahal Kormath, 23, hailing from Kerala . He didn't leave any suicide note.According to police, Shahal committed suicide as he feared he would not be allowed to appear for the final year exam since he had attendance shortage. The police broke open the door and saw his body hanging from a ceiling fan.The body was sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital (GRH) for autopsy. The IIT-M administration had recently informed his parents about his attendance shortage.On Saturday morning, Shahal's friend knocked on the door of his room.

CHENNAI: A final year ocean engineering student at IIT-Madras committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room on Saturday.The student has been identified as Shahal Kormath, 23, hailing from Kerala . He didn't leave any suicide note.According to police, Shahal committed suicide as he feared he would not be allowed to appear for the final year exam since he had attendance shortage. The IIT-M administration had recently informed his parents about his attendance shortage.On Saturday morning, Shahal's friend knocked on the door of his room. As there was no response, the student informed hostel warden Raguram Reddy, who alerted the Kotturpuram police. The police broke open the door and saw his body hanging from a ceiling fan.The body was sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital (GRH) for autopsy. The police registered a case under Section 174 of CrPC (unnatural death).On being informed, his brother was coming to Chennai from Bengaluru to receive the body, police said.

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