Kolkata, Sept. 20 -- A second year research scholar, identified as Harsh Kumar Pandey, a resident of Ranchi, was found hanging in BR Ambedkar Hall in the IIT-Kharagpur complex today, official sources said.
Twenty-four-year Pandey, a resident of Ranchi of Jharkhand, and a research scholar of the Mechanical Engineering department, was found hanging around this noon inside the BR Ambedkar Hall in the complex.
Later Police from Hijli Phari in Kharagpur town lowered the body and was taken to the hospital for post mortem. The unnatural death of the day was the sixth so far in this year, and of them, five students were found dead by hanging.
Before the latest casualty, on July 21 night a second year electrical engineering student Chandradeep Pa...