A first semester student of IIT-Guwahati today committed suicide allegedly by jumping from the fourth floor of his hostel in the campus here.
He has been identified as Tushar Yadav, hailing from Gurgaon in Haryana, and was a student of Electronics Communication and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, police said.
"The student took the extreme step in the wee hours today. He left a suicide note addressed to his parents. It mainly stated that he was suffering from depression for the last two months and today was its end," a police officer said.
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The body has been sent for post-mortem and the family has been informed about the incident, police said.