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‘Severely disturbed by exam stress’, NIT Jamshedpur student dies by suicide

Police said Devyanshu Gandhi, a second-year computer science student, died at residential building Friday night.

SuicidePolice registered a case and began probe in both the incidents. (Source: File)
Written by: Shubham Tigga
2 min readRanchiMay 19, 2025 02:16 AM IST First published on: May 18, 2025 at 09:01 PM IST

A 20-year-old B Tech student from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur allegedly died by suicide amid struggles with depression and exam stress, police said.

Police said Devyanshu Gandhi, a second-year computer science student, was on Friday night taken from a residential building to a hospital, where he was later declared dead.

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The police said his father, Brij Kishor, a locomotive pilot, was in Jamshedpur at the time of the incident. The family, originally from Ranchi, had been living with Gandhi for the past six months owing to his deteriorating mental health, police said.

Vinay Kumar, RIT police station officer-in-charge, said: “His parents informed us that he was severely disturbed by exam stress and had missed three exams in the second semester. On Friday, he skipped his physics exam…” Kumar said.

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