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Six months after death, IIT-Kharagpur student’s body exhumed in Assam

A West Bengal police team exhumed the body of a student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur from a burial ground in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh on Tuesday.

Faizan Ahmed, the 23-year-old student, was found dead in his hostel room on the IIT-Kharagpur campus on October 14, 2022.

The Calcutta High Court had in April ordered the exhumation of Faizan’s body for a second autopsy after a court-appointed expert pointed out several loopholes in the first one.

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