Jharkhand: Engineering student found dead in lodge; police suspect suicide
Press Trust of India | May 20, 2025 | 09:27 AM IST | 1 min read
The computer science student was alone in her room as her roommate had gone to visit her home in Dhanbad, Rajrappa police station officer-in-charge Krishna Kumar said.
NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old engineering student was found hanging in her room in a private lodge in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district on Monday, police said. The deceased, identified as Mehar Khan, was a student of Ramgarh Engineering College in Murubanda village in Rajrappa police station area and was living in a private lodge outside the campus along with a roommate, a police officer said.
Also read HP LEET 2025 admit card available on hptechboard.com; exam on May 25
The computer science student was alone in her room as her roommate had gone to visit her home in Dhanbad, Rajrappa police station officer-in-charge Krishna Kumar said. The body of Khan, who hailed from Jamshedpur, was recovered from the room by the police. Prima facie, it seems to be a case of suicide and further investigation is underway to ascertain the cause, he added.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]IIT Guwahati develops fluorescent sensor to detect cyanide in water, human cells
According to the official IIT Guwahati statement, the developed sensor changes colour and emits fluorescence in the presence of cyanide, contributing to both environmental safety and forensic investigations.
Press Trust of India | 1 min readFeatured News
]- CISCE schools can continue to teach foreign languages as 3rd option: Board secretary
- BBAU Lucknow student’s death sparks protests against hostel food, curfew; proctor denies link
- Fees to social media-use: What NCAHP’s first ethics code for allied, healthcare professionals says
- NMC junks 150-seat MBBS cap, population rule; sets 10 km limit for medical college-hospital distance
- ‘Not just academic, but personal’: NSUT Delhi takes AI beyond BTech, across non-engineering courses
- AI judge, cyber law courses, scholarships: GNLU is revamping LLB degrees to make students courtroom-ready
- CBSE third language policy throws French, Spanish, German teachers across schools into crisis
- With CSE surge, these specialised BTech courses are vanishing from engineering colleges
- Govt school to Glasgow: NIT Agartala civil engineer wins Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
- UGC allows state colleges to seek deemed-university status, become off-campus centres of other institutions