{"id":184893,"date":"2025-10-03T14:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=184893"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:26:28","slug":"iit-indian-student-found-dead-in-hostel-room-in-kanpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/10\/03\/iit-indian-student-found-dead-in-hostel-room-in-kanpur.html","title":{"rendered":"IIT Indian student found dead in hostel room in Kanpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-184894\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/Capture-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"214\" \/>Kanpur: A 21-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was found dead in Kanpur city of Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Uttar Pradesh state of India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Dheeraj Saini, a final-year BTech student of electrical engineering, hailed from Haryana state, was found dead in his hostel room of the city after other students reported a foul smell, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>When the deceased did not step out of his room, other students alerted authorities about a foul smell emanating from his locked room on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>A police team broke open the door and found Saini\u2019s body hanging from the ceiling fan with a rope, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kalyanpur) Ranjeet Kumar said. No suicide note was found, the police added.<\/p>\n<p>In another same suicide incident , a 20-year-old NEET aspirant from New Delhi was found hanging in his paying guest room in Kota in Rajasthan state, the Indian police said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another student from Bihar, living in an adjoining room in his PG room located in Sector-2 under the Vigyan Nagar police station limits in Rajasthan\u2019s Kota city, was found hanging from a ceiling fan.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he was preparing for NEET online and had been living in Kota for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Circle Inspector Mukesh Meena said the room was bolted from the inside. \u201cWe have found no sign of foul play at this stage,\u201d he said. K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanpur: A 21-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was found dead in Kanpur city of Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Uttar Pradesh state of India. According to Kashmir Media Service, Dheeraj Saini, a final-year BTech student of electrical engineering, hailed from Haryana state, was found dead in his hostel room of the city after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/Capture-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184895,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184893\/revisions\/184895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}