Overview
- Soham Patra went missing Tuesday night while traveling with his mother, who returned from the washroom to find him absent after passengers saw him near a train door.
- His body was recovered Wednesday morning from the Kansabati (Kansai) river between Kansai Halt and Medinipur and sent to Kharagpur sub-divisional hospital for post-mortem.
- Authorities have registered an unnatural-death case and are examining whether he fell from the train or jumped.
- Family members said he had been dealing with depression and reported no suspicion of ragging or other foul play.
- Reports differ on his academic department at Jadavpur University, and one outlet notes no formal family complaint had been filed at the time of reporting.