An IIT- ISM professor identified as Yashwant Gujjala died while swimming in the institute's swimming pool on Tuesday morning.
Originally from Odisha he was with his family at Howrah in West Bengal. Though he was a good swimmer on Tuesday as usual he went swimming with colleagues but supposedly died in water due to a heart attack.
Yashwant joined institute in January this year and was married in May, according to prof Rajiv Shekher director. Terming him a great teacher of mining engineering he said, we lost an asset to the institute.
Prod Dheeraj Kumar, deputy director informed that soon after his colleagues pulled him out of the pool was taken to the institute dispensary from where he was shifted to SNMMCH where doctors declared him brought dead.
Prof Dheeraj said, his family in Howrah has been informed of the mishap and they have left for Dhanbad. Autopsy would be conducted only after the family members reached Dhanbad. Causes of death would be ascertained only after autopsy was conducted, he added.