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A second-year Civil Engineering student at IIT Bombay allegedly died by suicide after jumping from a hostel building.
IIT Bombay student dies after jumping from hostel terrace.
A second-year Civil Engineering student at IIT Bombay allegedly died by suicide after jumping from the ninth floor of a hostel building on the campus, police said. The student has been identified as Naman Agarwal, who was originally from Jodhpur. The incident took place at the institute’s Powai campus. Officials said he was found critically injured and was declared dead shortly after.
The Powai Police have registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR) in the case. Further investigation is underway to ascertain the circumstances that led to the incident.
“No suicide note has been recovered so far,” officials said. IIT Bombay authorities have not yet issued an official statement on the matter.
Last month, a 25-year-old PhD scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur died after allegedly jumping from the sixth floor of a residential building on the campus. Ramswroop Ishram, a research scholar in the Department of Earth Sciences, lived in the New SBRA residential building with his wife and three-year-old daughter. Officials had said he was suffering from depression.
Notably, in March 2025, the Supreme Court of India constituted a National Task Force (NTF) on the mental health of students and the prevention of suicides in higher education institutions.
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As part of its mandate, the task force conducted a nationwide survey on student well-being, which received over 16 lakh responses. In its report, the NTF noted that around 65 per cent of institutions surveyed did not have access to mental health professionals, while nearly three-quarters lacked full-time counsellors.
Acting on the report, the apex court on January 16, 2026, issued a series of directions holding institutions responsible for taking steps to prevent suicides. The court stated that higher education institutions cannot remove students from hostels or bar them from classes or examinations due to delays in scholarship disbursal.
It also directed colleges to report all “unnatural deaths” to the police, including those occurring off campus and irrespective of the mode of study. The directions apply to students enrolled in online programmes as well.
February 04, 2026, 12:51 IST
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