Vadodara, Apr 13 (PTI) A 19-year-old engineering student at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU) in Gujarat’s Vadodara city allegedly committed suicide in a hostel on Sunday morning, police said.

Abhishek Sharma, who hailed from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, recently lost his father due to which he had been upset and remained aloof. This could be the reason behind his extreme step, Fatehgunj police sub-inspector RB Baraiya said.

The deceased, a second year student of the Faculty of Technology at the MSU (a state university), was found hanging from a ceiling fan using a bedsheet in the hostel’s common room for students, he said.

In the CCTV footage, he was seen walking towards the room and hanging himself using a table and a bedsheet at around 6.30 am Sunday when nobody was around, the official said.

The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem and later handed over to his relative in Vadodara, Baraiya said. PTI COR KA PD GK