IIT-Delhi student Manjula Devak found dead in her hostel room; no suicide note recovered

A student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi is suspected to have committed suicide inside her room in the campus on Tuesday evening. The body of Manjula Devak, 28, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room at the Nalanda Apartment around 7:38 pm, the police said.

The police received a distress call in the evening after someone spotted her body hanging from the ceiling fan through the open door of her room A PCR van was sent to the spot to retrieve Devak's body.

The victim was taken to a hospital located nearby where the doctors declared her brought dead. No suicide note was recovered from her room.

Devak, a civil engineer, was pursuing a PhD in water resources from IIT-Delhi. She had also worked in the United States for a short period of time following which she returned to India to study at IIT-Delhi. Devak, who hails from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, lived in the apartment alone while her husband and in-laws reside in Bhopal, according to reports. 

The police said that an inquiry by the sub-divisional magistrate will be conducted into the matter since the woman got married in 2013.

According to the Hindustan Times, a friend of Devak told the police that she did not suspect that the PhD student would kill herself. She had submitted a paper recently and looked happy. The police are still waiting for the post mortem report.