THE body of a 40-year-old research scholar from IIT Roorkee was recovered from the Ganga canal in the Manglaur Kotwali area here, police said on Monday. Mohit, a sixth-semester student in the Electronics and Communication Engineering department, had been missing from the institute campus for the past three to four days, the police said.

 

SP Rural Shekhar Chand Suyal told PTI that the deceased was a resident of Nainital. “The police received information about a body in the Ganga canal at Asafnagar Jhal on Sunday night. Identification confirmed he was a research scholar at IIT,” Suyal said. The SP added that, prima facie, the cause of death appears to be suicide, as no injury marks or signs of struggle were found on the body.