The Calcutta High Court on April 25 directed to conduct a second post-mortem of the body of Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmed, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances, at the institute in October 2022.
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed the investigating officer to bring the body to Kolkata from Dibrugarh in Assam, for a second post-mortem. The court ordered that the autopsy be held at the Calcutta Medical College within a month. The next hearing of the case will be in June.
Faizan Ahmed, a third year mechanical engineering student at IIT, was found dead at the institute’s hostel on October 14. The family members approached the Calcutta High Court seeking a probe into the death of the student.
