Rourkela, Sep 4: A second-year BTech student was found hanging in the hostel room inside MS Swaminathan Hall of Residence at NIT-Rourkela on Monday.
The deceased has been identified him as Debamalya Roy Karmakar, a native of Tripura. He was an Electronics and Communication Engineering student. It is being suspected that he died by suicide though the exact reason behind it is yet to be ascertained.
Sources said that Roy was alone in the room since his roommate had left for his hometown in Sambalpur.
The matter came to light after he did not receive the call of his parents. They later informed the institute authorities and the door had to be forced open.
Police have reached the spot and started an investigation into the incident.
