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Exam stress drives IIT student to suicide

Exam stress drives IIT student to suicide

A year after a student killed himself at IITs Powai campus, another suicide rocked the campus on Saturday when 21-year-old Srikant Mallapallu hanged himself in his hostel room, leaving behind a suicide note.

I feel I could not make it because of the backlog of exams that I need to clear. But I want to thank all my professors who helped me immensely and I am sorry for causing all these things, read the suicide note.

According to a senior police official, the suicide took place between noon and 6 pm. Mallapallu was a final year B Tech student of electrical engineering who hailed from Hyderabad.

More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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