India, Nov. 13 -- A 20-year-old student of IIT Roorkee was found hanging in his hostel room, with police recovering a purported suicide note from the room, officials said on Friday.

The deceased, Ayush Rajauria, was a second-year student of the institute's BS-MS programme in Mathematics and Computing and hailed from Raj Nagar Extension in Ghaziabad.

According to police, the incident came to light around midnight on Thursday after Kuldeep Singh Negi, a security officer at IIT Roorkee, informed the Kotwali Roorkee police that a student had died by suicide in room number BS 10 on the second floor of Govind Bhawan hostel. Station House Officer (SHO) Pradeep Bisht, accompanied by a police team and a field unit, reached the spot. After the do...