Engineering student hangs himself in Haryana

Jind, Jan 11: A 22-year-old engineering student today allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself over poor performance in semester examination, in Sundar Nagar here, police said.

The deceased, identified as Vivek, a civil engineering student at a college in Ambala, this afternoon hanged himself from ceiling fan when he was alone in his house, they said.

Vivek was under stress as he felt he did not perform well in his first semester examination, Investigating Officer Vinod Kumar said.

On returning from their uncle's house in the same neighbourhood, his brother Udit found Vivek hanging after which he was rushed to a hospital here where doctors declared him brought dead, police said.

The body was handed over to his family members after postmortem, they said.

PTI