A body of a girl student of a college was found hanging in a room of a private hostel near Mission Road here on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Arpita Rout, a +2 second year student of the Emarti Devi Women’s College here. She was staying at the hostel for the last three months.
The hostel authorities and inmates spotted the body hanging with a rope in the room in the morning and informed police. Though the exact reason behind the death was yet to be ascertained, it was suspected that the girl took the extreme step of committing suicide.
The Cantonment police recovered the body and sent it for postmortem. Investigation into the incident was underway.
