Sujit allegedly hanged himself from the ceiling of his room yesterday night, Superintendent of Police Ratan Kumar Srivastava said, adding that the reasons for him taking the extreme steps could not be ascertained.
Sujit's body had been sent for postmortem, he added.
Victim's father Fateh Bahadur is Samajwadi Party leader and enjoys the status of state minister for being the Charmian of the Cooperative.