The body of the 23-year-old deceased woman was recovered by police from the institute’s campus on Tuesday night.
Bhubaneswar: An IIT Bhubaneswar student died after allegedly falling from the fifth floor of its administrative building. As per the news agency PTI report, the body of the 23-year-old deceased woman was recovered by police from the institute’s campus on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Kritika Raj, a third-year B.Tech student from Delhi.
“We suspect it to be a case of suicide,” a police officer was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. The institute in a statement, said, “Yesterday night at about 11 pm, a student fell down from the fifth floor of the administration building which houses the library… The police was informed immediately and are investigating the case,”
The body has been taken to Khurda district headquarters hospital for postmortem examination, the officer said.
(With PTI Inputs)
