IIT Madras student found dead on railway track: Report
Abhiraj P | August 20, 2022 | 02:25 PM IST | 1 min read
Megha Sri from Odisha did her MTech from IIT Delhi, and was pursuing a post-doctoral three-month research course training at IIT Madras.
NEW DELHI: A post doctoral student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras was found dead on the tracks near the Avadi railway station, reported the dailythanthi.com. The student, Megha Sri, aged 30, from Odisha, did her MTech from IIT Delhi, and was pursuing a post-doctoral three-month research course training at IIT Madras.
Sri was reportedly found dead on August 19 with head injury on the railway tracks between Avadi-Indukkalluri railway stations in Chennai. A railway employee saw the body and informed the Avadi railway police. The railway police sent the body to Kilpakkam government hospital, Chennai for post-mortem. The Avadi police initially determined the sex of the student by the ID card found on her. However, the police is investigating the cause behind the death, whether she fell from the moving train, or due to some other reason.
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Recently, a 23-year-old IIITM, Gwalior student allegedly died by suicide reportedly due to decline in viewers on his YouTube channel, police said. The deceased student jumped from the third floor of a residential building and died on the spot.
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