Student falls off hostel building while talking on phone, dies

A third-year B.Tech student of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design, and Manufacturing (IITDM) Jabalpur died on Friday after falling off the hostel building while talking on a mobile phone a day earlier, Madhya Pradesh police said. Sachin Keshari (22) hails from Jharkhand and fell from the third floor of hostel number 3 at around 8 pm on Thursday, Dumna police post-in-charge Vinod Patel told PTI.

"He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital but succumbed to internal injuries on Friday. He was talking on the phone with his parents at the time of the incident. He was telling his parents about scoring lower than expected marks, a roommate has told police," Patel said. He said a forensic team had inspected the spot and prima facie it seems he lost balance and fell off.