Tragedy strikes IIT Kanpur again: 25-year-old PhD scholar dies by alleged suicide
Kanpur/IBNS: A 25-year-old PhD scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur died allegedly by suicide on Tuesday afternoon, marking the second such incident on the campus in recent times, media reports said.
Ramswroop Ishram, a research scholar in the Department of Earth Sciences, reportedly jumped from the sixth floor of a campus residential building.
Though rushed to a private hospital, he was declared brought dead.
Ishram, a native of Churu district in Rajasthan, was living in the New SBRA Building with his wife, Manju, and their three-year-old daughter.
His body has been sent for post-mortem, while his wife is being questioned as part of ongoing legal proceedings.
Police sources said Ishram had been undergoing depression and anxiety and had received counselling.
This incident comes just weeks after another student, 26-year-old Jai Singh Meena, a final-year BTech student in Biological Sciences and Engineering, was found dead in his hostel room on December 29, 2025.
Meena reportedly left a note saying, “Sorry Everyone.”
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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