{"id":1830,"date":"2014-02-13T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T10:22:25","slug":"suicide-strikes-iit-roorkee-2-years-death-toll-rises-4-iits-since-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/suicide-strikes-iit-roorkee-2-years-death-toll-rises-4-iits-since-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Strikes Again in IIT-Roorkee after 2 Years\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dDeath Toll Rises to 4 in IITs since December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hang-up.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1831 alignright\" title=\"Suicide Strikes Again in IIT-Roorkee after 2 Years\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dDeath Toll Rises to 4 in IITs since December \" alt=\"Suicide Strikes Again in IIT-Roorkee after 2 Years\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dDeath Toll Rises to 4 in IITs since December \" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hang-up.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Udai Biradare, a second year M.Tech student from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-colleges.aspx\">IIT-Roorkee<\/a>, ended his life at the campus by hanging himself with a rope from the ceiling fan of his room on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He belonged to Latur district in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll of suicides in IITs has risen to 4 since December, 2013, which has once again highlighted the issues of students dealing with severe depression and stress in a rigorous environment created in IITs.<\/p>\n<p>Udai Biradare was found dead in his room DG 8 of Cautley Bhawan hostel of the institution in the morning by his friends. Police also recovered a suicide note written in Marathi addressed to his parents beneath his laptop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police were informed on Wednesday morning about the incident. The door was broken after we found it bolted from inside. The body has been sent for postmortem,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Sub-inspector Subhash said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once we receive the postmortem report, we can ascertain the exact time of the suicide. Prima facie, it appears the suicide was committed in the wee hours of the morning,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>IIT-Roorkee\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s authority refused to comment anything on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The last case of suicide committed by a student at IIT-Roorkee was reported on February 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011. Manish Kumar, a third year B. Tech student, had ended his life by jumping from the 5<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the hostel building.<br \/>\nThis post was contributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/109991842258352526490?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monika Rai<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\">askiitians <\/a>expert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Udai Biradare, a second year M.Tech student from IIT-Roorkee, ended his life at the campus by hanging himself with a rope from the ceiling fan of his room on Wednesday morning. He belonged to Latur district in Maharashtra. The death toll of suicides in IITs has risen to 4 since December, 2013, which has once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}