A 23 year-old, final year Engineering student of University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) committed suicide by setting himself on fire in his room at Hostel number 2 of Panjab University on Thursday afternoon.
The body of Amandeep Singh, a native of Moga was discovered by firefighters, who were called to the hostel by University officials and other hostelers who noticed fire flames coming out from his room number 60 in block number 2 of hostel number 2 on Thursday.
Amandeep Singh, who was a final year student, had an examination on Thursday. However he left his answer sheet empty and went to his room after handing over the empty answer sheet to the examiner.
He later locked himself inside his room and set himself on fire. The teams of fire brigade department reached the spot to control fire and pushed open the door. Amandeep was later rushed to Government Multi Specialty Hospital cector-16 where doctors declared him brought dead.
Police sources said the deceased had kept his mobile phone switched off from past two days and he was in stress for the past few days.
A team of CFSl was also called by police to the spot to investigate into the matter and the dead body of deceased was later handed over to the CFSl team.
“Police have started investigation in the matter but is yet to find reasons for the death as no suicide note was found from the spot,” said Ashish Kapoor, DSP (Central) UT police.