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Patna,(BiharTimes): Mystery shrouds the death of a former IIT student from Bihar studying in Paris. His parents suspect foul play and are holding his two Indian friends responsible for the tragedy.
Satyam Kumar, 28, who did B Tech and M Tech from IIT Mumbai was studying at the Ecole Polytechnique University in Paris, has been found dead under mysterious circumstances.
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He had been missing since a late-night party on December 3. His body was fished out five days later on Wednesday.
He went to the lakeside with the two friends, One of them, Nitish Kumar, originally from Patna, later told his friends over phone from Paris that it was he who called them to celebrate the end of their exams with a bottle of whisky.
Satyam was the only son of a schoolteacher in Sitamarhi in Bihar. He had joined the University in Paris in August this year to do a Master’s in Mechanics in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
His family had sought the body and the medical report from the Indian embassy in Paris.
After the body was found Satyam’s friends in Sitamarhi had called up the two youths partying with Satyam on December 3 night.
According to Nitish, who too is enrolled at Ecole Polytechnique, he called Satyam and Abhishek Singh, an Allahabad youth studying at the Paris engineering institute, IFP School. Both Nitish and Abhishek had studied in IIT Kanpur and the latter was introduced to Satyam for the first time by the former only that very night.
Nitish said that around 8:30 PM, the three sat down near a hut next to the lake and chatted and took whisky. They did so for three hours. Then, Nitish says, he and Abhishek left and went to sleep.
After Nitish woke up next morning, he remembered he had left his bag at the lakeside and went back. He said over phone that he did not find his bag but found Satyam’s camera lying nearby.
According to The Telegraph, which claims to have access to the recording of conversation, Nitish then said “I came back and went to Satyam’s room. But he wasn’t there.” He then slept again. When he woke up at 4 PM, Satyam was still missing.
After that the roommates informed the university guards who called police. On Sunday, the French police scanned Nitish’s room and took away Satyam’s camera and other belongings. On Wednesday the body was found in the lake.
Satyam’s mother Sobha Devi was quoted by the daily as saying that her son told her that he would be leaving for the US for a job interview in February. “He was so happy. He said he had made a unique design of an aircraft and would get the US job. How could this have happened,” he had said.
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