Silchar, Sept. 16 -- A 20-year-old student of Assam's Tezpur University was found dead in his hostel room on the university campus on Wednesday afternoon, with police suspecting suicide.

Sonitpur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Barun Purkayastha said the Bachelor of Science (BSc) student was found hanging in his hostel room, with the door locked from inside.

"We received the information at around 1:30pm. The body was recovered by our team and it was sent to the Kanaklata Civil Hospital (KCH), where the doctors confirmed the death before the postmortem was conducted," he said.

Registrar of the university Chandan Goswami told HT that the deceased was a resident of Nagaon district and was pursuing a BSc in the Integrated Chemistry d...