India, Jan. 25 -- A 20-year-old second-year BTech student died, reportedly by suicide, at a Greater Noida hostel on Friday night after he turned up drunk at the facility, got into an altercation with the warden and was reprimanded by his father over the phone, the police said on Saturday. Later, on a complaint from the student's family, the warden and the owner of the hostel were booked for allegedly thrashing the student before he jumped to his death, police said.

According to the police, the student, who had come from Bhoginpur in Jhansi, turned up at the hostel in an inebriated condition, along with two friends, around 9pm. The hostel management reprimanded him, recorded a video and reportedly sent it to his father.

However, students...