Guwahati, Aug 9 - A college student in Assam allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a speeding train after being ragged in hostel, his family said.

The body of Chintumoni Bordoloi, a first year student of BA at Dimoria College in Sonapur on the outskirts of Assam's main city of Guwahati, was found on a railway track early Sunday.

'Chintumoni called me up last night (Saturday) saying he was very badly ragged by seniors in the hostel. He was crying while talking on the phone and saying he could not sleep till the early hours,' Gobind Bordoloi, Chintumoni's elder brother, said.

Chintumoni oined the college just three days ago.

'We have a feeling he ended his life unable to bear the trauma of ragging,' Ranjit Bordoloi, another brother of the victim, said.