Bhopal, May 13 -- An 18-year-old student from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, Utkarsh Mahadev Shingne, was found dead in a bathroom at the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) in Pune on Monday morning. Police are investigating the incident as a potential suicide, citing academic stress as a possible cause.

Shingne, a first-year medical student, was from the Beed district in Maharashtra. According to Senior Police Inspector Satyajit Admane, Shingne was among a group of students from various colleges across the country who had gathered in Pune for a festival program at AFMC. "Our investigation so far suggests that he was under stress due to his academic pressures, and we believe this may have led to him taking hi...