India, July 18 -- A 21-year-old mechanical engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in West Bengal was found dead in his hostel room on Friday morning, with preliminary investigations suggesting death by suicide, police said.

Police said that no suicide note was found and the student's body was sent for postmortem.

"A fourth-year student of mechanical engineering was found hanging in his hostel room on Friday morning. He was a resident of Kolkata. His parents have arrived," Bhargab Maitra, a civil engineering professor and dean of students at IIT Kharagpur, said.

According to police officers, the student had returned to the institute on Wednesday. He had gone home for summer vacation. Their classes had ...