Student suicide at IIT Kanpur is third in two months

Manjunath was studying Computer Science. He belonged to Karnataka.

Lucknow:  A 21-year-old student at IIT Kanpur has committed suicide in his hostel room by drinking poison. This is the third suicide since December by a student at India's premier engineering institute.

Manjunath was studying Computer Science. He belonged to Karnataka. He had lost his father and sister; he is survived by his mother.

Sources on campus say the third-year student, was depressed and had been consulting a psychiatrist on campus.

Rakesh Kumar Sachaan, the Registrar at the institute, said that Manjunath came from "a troubled background".

Since 2005, 15 students at IIT Kanpur have killed themselves.