A 20-year-old BTech student from Arunachal Pradesh was found dead at his rented accommodation near the Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE) under the Kothamangalam police limits in the Ernakulam district of Kerala.
The deceased has been identified as Michi Marpu, a native of Naharlagun in the Papum Pare district of Arunachal, who was a third-year civil engineering student at the institution.
Marpu was living with other students in a rented house near Kozhippilly in Kothamangalam, police said, adding that he was found lying on the floor with a rope around his neck on Saturday night.
When he was rushed to the Kothamangalam Taluk Hospital, doctors pronounced him dead. Preliminary investigations by the police suggest that he had attempted suicide by hanging from the ceiling, during which the rope likely snapped, causing him to fall to the floor.
A three-page suicide note written in both English and Hindi was recovered from the room. Investigators said the fear of losing an academic year due to low marks in certain subjects appears to have driven Marpu to take his own life.
The Kothamangalam police have registered a case of unnatural death and launched an investigation.
Police said the body will be handed over to his family members, who are expected to reach on Monday, after conducting the post- mortem examination.
