Sovit Agarwal, of the Moti Lal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) in Allahabad, ended his life by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room, according to the police.
According to Agarwal’s roommates, he had returned to the institute from Sikkim on Tuesday night.
“We saw a Hindi movie on his new laptop which he got from his parents recently. In the morning, he was sleeping and refused to attend class,” Anshul Shekhar, one of the deceased’s roommates, told reporters.