IIM-L student in webcam suicide
HT Correspondent
Lucknow, September 22

A 22-year-old post-graduate student committed suicide at the Indian Institute of Management here by hanging himself in his hostel room on Wednesday evening. This is the first-ever incident of its kind at the institute.

While there was no suicide note recovered from the room, a webcam, probably set up by the student himself to record his suicide as it contained hazy pictures of the episode, was found from the room.

The student, Birkariya Sikri Handsdah, hailed from Orissa.

One of the victim’s freinds said though Handsdah was a good student, he was an introvert. They said Handsdah did not seemed to have any problems with his peers or even in his studies.

Station House Officer Madiaon A.K. Shahi told HT that the boy first seemed to have attempted to hang himself from the ceiling fan, but later he ran the nylon cord through the ventilator shaft grill and from there to the grill above the door.

On the boy's computer screen was found a website which featured various ways to hang oneself, the officer added.

Students told the police that Handsdah was last seen at 2 a.m. when he left his friend's room after watching a film on the computer. At about 5 a.m., when some of his colleagues called him on his mobile, they got no response.

They went to his room and on peeping through, saw a part of him. Suspicious, they broke open the door to find him Handsdah hanging.

The police have sent the body for a post-mortem and his parents have also been intimated.