Ghaziabad: A 23-year-old BTech student from Chandigarh University allegedly died by suicide after hanging himself from the ceiling at his former girlfriend’s flat in Masuri. Police said the couple had broken up three months earlier.The student, a resident of Amroha, had come to visit his former girlfriend, a BCA student from Gajraula, on Wednesday night. His relatives told cops that he spoke with his father around 7.30am on Thursday and told him his friends had called him to help with a project and that he would be leaving for Punjab soon. Around 8am, however, one of the friends called his father and told him the student had hung himself.The student, his former girlfriend, a female flatmate and a male mutual friend were present in the flat at the time of the incident. Police said the student got into a dispute with the mutual friend on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday allegedly over the mutual friend’s friendship with the BCA student.When the BCA student noticed her room was locked from the inside on Thursday morning, she raised the alarm and the group later discovered the student’s body.“Around 8 am, police received information from the landlord of the house, a team rushed to the spot and sent the body for post-mortem examination after a forensic inspection,” said ACP Bhaskar Verma. “All three present in the flat have been detained for questioning.”No complaint has been registered in the case so far, but investigation is underway, police said.
