Overview

• Tarun Thakur, a 25-year-old UPSC aspirant from Jammu, was found hanging in his rented room in Old Rajinder Nagar after police received a PCR call at 6:32 pm on July 20.
• Investigators recovered a nine-page suicide note in which Thakur explicitly stated he alone was responsible for his death.
• He had shared the second-floor accommodation, comprising seven single-room units, with six other UPSC aspirants for over a year.
• Delhi Police have assigned a crime team and forensic experts to probe the circumstances of his death.
• Thakur’s suicide is the latest in a series of student deaths in Delhi’s UPSC coaching clusters and Kota exam centres that have renewed concerns over mental health support.