India, Nov. 13 -- A 20-year-old undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee allegedly died by suicide on Thursday night.

The student had been suffering from depression for some time and had visited the institute's wellness centre for over a year. According to police officials, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using a bedsheet.

At around 11 pm, when fellow students knocked on his hostel room door and received no response, they looked through the window and saw him hanging from the ceiling fan.

HT reached out to IIT Roorkee media cell in-charge Sonika Srivastava, but she was unavailable for comment.

Pradeep Singh Bisht, station house officer (SHO) at Roorkee police station, said polic...