IIT-Delhi student falls to death from campus building

An
18-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi died
after falling from the roof of the computer engineering department building,
police said on Wednesday.

According to
the police, initial investigation has revealed that on the day of the incident
on Friday last, the victim Ananya Gupta’s mother after receiving a call from
her daughter, visited her in the institute’s campus at around 8 am and stayed
with her till afternoon.

Later in the
evening, Gupta was seen going alone towards the roof using a ladder. Soon after
that a security guard near the lecture hall complex heard a sound and rushed to
the spot where he found the student had fallen and was severely injured, police
said.

Following
that the student was admitted to AIIMS Trauma Centre, where she gave up on her
injuries on Tuesday.

Police said
the investigation is on and that no suicide note was recovered from the spot.