Student found dead in Kurukshetra University hostel room

AB Tech III year student from Delhi was today found dead in his hostel room in Kurukshetra University under mysterious conditions, police said.

When a reek started emanating from the deceased's locked room in Harsh Bhawan hostel of the University, some hostelers informed the warden about it.

Chief Warden Sat Dev got the door of the room opened and the body was found in a decomposed condition, police said.

They said that the body bore a cut on the chin and the dead was identified as AK Jain a student in the Mechanical branch of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

A resident of Rohini in Delhi, Jain was last seen working on his laptop till late Monday night after which no one saw him.

The deceased's parents in Delhi were informed, police said, adding, the student's body had been sent for postmortem examination to PGIMS at Rohtak.

Police have registered a case in the incident and said that prima facie it looked like a suicide case.