“The frequency of suicides on the SRM campus is kind of alarming. Parents of hundreds of students studying there are also concerned. So, we need to investigate the deaths,” a senior police officer said.    

On July 15, Sree Raghav, a student from Kanniyakumari committed suicide by jumping from the seventh floor of the SRM college building. The deceased was in the final year of BTech and was staying in a rented house in Potheri. On the day of the incident, he went late to college and jumped to his death, an officer said. 

On May 26, a final year Bio-Medical student Anupriya from Tiruvallur committed suicide by jumping from the eighth floor of her hostel room and on the following day, an 18-year-old first year ECE student, Anith Choudary of Jharkhand, was found dead on the backyard of the boys’ hostel. 

A release from the institution stated that the psychiatry department of the medical college at SRMIST had made it a practice to offer support and guidance to students facing any problems. “We have a faculty mentoring programme where one faculty takes care of 20 students. The medical college psychiatry department is offering psychological counselling for the needy students,” the college management said in the release.