Overview
- Friends discovered Saurav Raj in his rented room on Tuesday night, a friend entered through a window because the door was bolted from inside, he was taken to Giridih Sadar Hospital and later declared dead, and a postmortem was carried out on Wednesday.
- Police said the body was found hanging from a ceiling fan in the room and that no suicide note was recovered.
- Investigators recorded injuries on the victim’s wrist and have not reached a definitive conclusion on the cause of death.
- Authorities will lodge an unnatural-death (UD) case based on the family’s statement and are questioning friends, neighbours and the landlord’s family while awaiting detailed forensic findings.
- The deceased was identified as 22-year-old Saurav Raj, a final-year polytechnic student at Subhash Institute of Technology who had lived in rented accommodation in Sitalpur for about a year and whose family has come from Dumka to assist the probe.