PRAYAGRAJ, March 30 -- A hearing and speech-impaired BTech student of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A), died by suicide late Saturday night by jumping from the fifth floor of his hostel.

The deceased, a first-year student of Information Technology, hailed from Nizamabad, Telangana.

The deceased had got admission in IIIT-A after securing 52nd rank in JEE. He took the extreme step on his birthday after talking to his mother on video call and messaging her around 12 midnight.

Hearing the commotion in the middle of the night, hostel students rushed to the spot. The institute administration immediately informed the police, who took custody of the body and sent it to Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital (SRNH) for po...