Why there's so much stress among students in IIT, asks father of IIT Kharagpur student found hanging in hostel room

-

Father of K Kiran Chandra, fourth-year student of electrical engineering at IIT Kharagpur, who was founding hanging in his hostel room, alleged his son was “stressed due to a project”.

Talking to reporters, Kiran father Kethavath Chandra, said, “Why is there so much stress among students in IIT? He was stressed due to a project.”

“My son was good at studies. In the three years of his engineering course, he did not have any backlog. But he was depressed over this project. He had spoken to his professor, but was dismissed and asked to complete the project in time. I spoke to him last on October 16. He told me he was studying and would speak later. This is not about ragging, but they (IIT) could have helped him,” Kiran’s father said.

The victim’s family members also alleged that he was depressed over a project and had confided in his professor, who had brushed aside his apprehensions and asked him to complete it on time.

The deadline for submitting the assignment was Tuesday, the day Kiran was found hanging in his hostel room.

Police said Kiran hailed from Chetla Thimmaipally in Telangana’s Medak district and preliminary probe suggested that he allegedly died by suicide. A case has also been registered into the matter.

IIT statement on student’s alleged suicide

IIT Kharagpur issued a statement in connection with the incident and said the victim chose the path of “self-harm”.

“Till about 7:30 pm the student was with two of his roommates in their hostel room. Later, the other two students left for academic activities. Subsequently around 8:30 pm, fellow boarders found his room locked from inside,” the statement by the institute read.

Later, the door was forced open and his body was found, the statement added.

Security personnel and other students rushed the victim to the hospital where he was declared dead around 11:30 pm on Tuesday, police informed.

Kiran was allotted room number 513 in Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall along with two other fourth-year students.

West Midnapore police superintendent Dhritiman Sarkar said the post-mortem of the body was videographed and investigation was in progress.

The incident of Kiran’s unnatural death came exactly after a year when the partially decomposed remains of Faizan Ahmed, a third-year student at IIT Kharagpur from Assam, were discovered within his hostel room on October 14, 2022.

The authorities had to forcibly open the locked door to gain access.

Initially IIT Kharagpur said Faizan had taken his own life. However, on the orders of the Calcutta High Court, his body was exhumed, and a second post-mortem was conducted. The family claimed that their son was the victim of foul play and alleged that the institute was attempting to conceal the matter.

With inputs from agencies



from Firstpost India Latest News https://ift.tt/fIdZxQB
FP Staff

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Both COVID-19 vaccine doses needed for good protection against B16172 variant

-
It’s been a concerning few weeks in the UK, with the B16172 variant first taking hold and then spreading to become dominant. This more infectious form of the virus, initially identified in India, is what we’re now going to have to live with – unless it is out-competed by another variant in the future. Worryingly, experts had predicted that B16172 might be able to escape some of the effects of vaccines, which if true would threaten to derail the UK’s plans to finish lifting restrictions from the end of June. However, Public Health England (PHE) has looked at the ability of various variants to evade immunity and says that the UK’s vaccines remain effective against the variants circulating, including B16172. On the surface, this looks like good news. But delve a bit deeper, and things get more complicated, says Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia. PHE’s research found a little drop-off in protection against B16172 among people who were fully vaccinated.
Read more

New coronavirus variant emerge in India: How should our COVID response change?

-
Image
After genome sequencing of over 10,000 COVID-19 cases in India, researchers have discovered a new variant with two new mutations which may be better at evading the immune system. In 15-20 percent of samples from the Indian state of Maharashtra (the state accounting for 62 percent of cases in the country) a new, double mutation in key areas of the virus has been detected. These are now known as the E484Q and L452R mutations. What makes the variant different? Both these mutations are concerning because they are located in a key portion of the virus – the spike protein – that it uses to penetrate human cells. Spike proteins attach via a “receptor binding domain”, meaning the virus can attach to receptors in our cells. These new mutations include changes to the spike protein that make it a “better fit” for human cells. This means the virus can gain entry more easily and multiply faster. Given what we have seen with other similar mutations , it might also make it harder for our immu
Read more

Aditya L1 Mission: Spacecraft is nearing its final phase, says ISRO chief

-
Aditya L1 spacecraft is nearing its final phase, and manoeuvres to enter the L1 point are expected to be completed by January 7, 2024, according to ISRO Chairman S Somanath. “Aditya is on the way. I think it has reached almost its final phase,” the ISRO chief told PTI on the sidelines of an event organised at VSSC to commemorate the 60th year of the First Sounding Rocket Launch. Aditya L1, India’s first space-based mission to study the Sun, was successfully launched on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota. The spacecraft, after travelling about 1.5 million km from Earth over 125 days, is expected to be placed in a Halo orbit around the Lagrangian point L1, considered closest to the Sun. He said that the last preparations for the spacecraft’s entry into the L1 point are currently underway incrementally.”Possibly by January 7th, the final manoeuvres will be done for entering into the L1 point,” Somanath added. Among other tasks, it will capture and tr
Read more