A 21-year-old student of Azim Premji University died on Friday after he fell from the 15th floor of a building inside the varsity’s Sarjapur campus in Bengaluru Rural.
The room of the student, identified as Ashwin Nambiyar, was located on the 15th floor. The Sarjapur police, who have registered an FIR, are investigating the case.
Bengaluru Rural SP, Mallikarjun Baldandi, talking to The Hindu, said Nambiyar, who hails from Hyderabad, died after falling from the 15th floor through a window. The police are now probing to determine whether this incident occurred accidentally or was a case of suicide. The incident happened between 10 a.m. and 10.30 a.m., he informed. After the incident, the university cancelled all the classes for the day.
