MUMBAI: "Please hand over my mobile phone to my brother when you receive this note. The mobile has some good old memories," this was the message that the 26-year-old post-graduate student of IDC School of Design at IIT-Bombay scribbled for his friend before jumping to his death from the seventh floor of his hostel building early on Monday.
Powai police recovered the note in the deceased's room on the fourth floor of hostel number-12. Apart from this note, he had left another note scribbled on a white writing board, saying no one should be blamed for his action of ending his life.
The police, prima facie, found that the student who was from Madhya Pradesh was battling depression even before joining the IIT Bombay.
At IIT-B, he was undergoing counselling and psychiatrist treatment from the faculty as well as external doctors, police said. He had visited a campus doctor on January 6, a source said.
"He stayed alone in the hostel room. He jumped from the seven-storey hostel building. The security guard rushed to the spot on hearing a loud thud, at around 4.30 am, and found him lying in a pool of blood," said an officer of the Powai police station.
The student enrolled for the two-year masters' programme in communication design at IDC in 2020, but he came to the campus only in July last year.
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