Chandigarh, July 23 -- A day after a final-year MBBS student fell to his death from the sixth floor of the E-block at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, police on Wednesday claimed that he appeared stressed about academic difficulties, confirming that the death was a suicide.

Even though the postmortem of the 23-year-old's body is yet to be conducted, police said that the deceased had sent goodbye messages to his friends prior to taking this extreme step.

According to the police, no one from the victim's family had reached the mortuary where his body was kept; therefore, the post-mortem could not be conducted on Wednesday. However, it will be conducted on Thursday, as confirmed by the police.

Police said that th...