Overview
- A 20‑year‑old second‑year IIT Bombay student, Sohil Rajkumar Sangwan, was found hanging in his hostel room late Tuesday night and Powai police registered an Accidental Death Report while sending the body for post‑mortem.
- Investigators at IIT Bombay have seized the student’s phone and laptop and say chats and handwritten romantic poems suggest family and relationship difficulties though no suicide note was recovered and causes remain unconfirmed.
- IIT Kharagpur security found assistant professor Deepak Reddy Pullaguram hanging in his campus quarters on Wednesday afternoon and local police have sealed his residence, filed an unnatural‑death case, and await autopsy results.
- Both police forces are conducting forensic analyses, recording witness statements and urging the public not to speculate while inquiries continue and no foul play has been publicly reported so far.
- Reporting places these deaths in a wider context of campus wellbeing with RTI data showing 65 student suicides across IITs from 2021–2025 and institutes pointing to counselling programmes even as calls grow for stronger mental‑health support for students and staff.