IIT-H graduate ends life by jumping off a lodge in Sangareddy

He was Megha Kapoor, who passed out from IIT-H campus last month.Kapoor is native of Jodhpur in Rajasthan. He had been staying in Aadhya Lodge in the town since August 1.

Sangareddy: A-22-year-old B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) student Megha Kapoor leaped to death from the second floor of a lodge at Pothyreddypally Junction in Sangareddy town on Wednesday. The native of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, he has some backlogs left in his final year and had been staying in Aadhya Lodge here since August 1 to prepare for the examinations scheduled in October.

Lodge Manager Ramesh said that Kapoor’s parents paid three months’ rent for the lodge room (Rs 16,000) and informed him that he will vacate the room after writing the backlog examinations in October. Kapoor used to go out of the room every day, but on Tuesday he stayed in the room. He had a long chat with some people on Tuesday night. When Kapoor jumped off the building, the watchman noticed it and informed the Manager at 3am. Kapoor was rushed to a hospital where the doctor declared him brought dead. The Police said they could not access his mobile phone and laptop because even the parents did not have passwords.

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Sangareddy Rural Police have registered a case and shifted the body to the Government Hospital for a post-mortem examination.