A final-year B.Tech student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur was found dead in his hostel room on Wednesday. This is the seventh such case at the institute in the past two years.

The student, identified as Dheeraj Saini (22) from Haryana, was studying electrical engineering and stayed in room number 123 of Hostel-1. Saini’s hostel-mates noticed a foul smell coming from his locked room and informed the authorities.

“A police team broke open the door and found Saini’s body hanging from the ceiling fan with a rope," Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kalyanpur) Ranjeet Kumar told PTI

He added that no suicide note was found. The body was sent for post-mortem, and the cause of death will be confirmed after the autopsy.

Saini had recently told his sister that he planned to v

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