On Thursday evening, a research scholar who worked as a project associate at the indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) was found dead on the campus . The scholar has been identified as 30-year old Unnikishanan Nair , a resident of Ernakulam district in Kerala, and the police suspect he could have died by suicide, as they have retrieved an 11-page note, purportedly written by him, from the campus premises.
“On july 1 at 6.15 pm, Dr Raju , a sports officer , came to the hockey field with his teammates and saw the body of a 30-year-old unidentified man lying half-thrown on the field,” the police said in a statement issued on Friday.
The scholar’s body has been kept at a government hospital in Chennai, An autopsy would be conducted after the family arrives.
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