Hyderabad, May 19 -- A first-year MA student at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) died by suicide on Monday, May 18, with fellow students alleging that he was physically assaulted and publicly humiliated by activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) hours before his death, an allegation the university is yet to formally address.

Mayukh Kundu, a student of Financial Economics from West Bengal, was found dead in the campus Buffalo Lake on Tuesday morning, May 19, a day after he went missing. A suicide note recovered from his hostel room led authorities to the lake.

The sequence of events began when Mayukh was found to have stolen a laptop belonging to an intern at F-Hostel. He admitted to the theft and returned his own lap...