Caste-based Discrimination
Friend's Behaviour Changed Over
Caste, IIT Student Had Told Sister: Police.
IIT Student Suicide Case: The chargesheet named fellow student Arman Khatri who is out on bail after being arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide.
Updated: June 01, 2023 19:16 pm
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Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay (IITB) student Darshan Solanki who allegedly committed suicide had told
his mother that caste-based discrimination existed on the institute's campus, a
chargesheet filed in the case by police has said.
Friends' Behaviour Changed Over
Caste, IIT Student Had Told Sister: Police.
IIT Student Suicide:The chargesheet included statements of 55 witnesses.
He also told his mother during
telephonic conversations that the behaviour of fellow students changed when
they learned about his caste, it claimed.
The statement of Solnaki's mother is part of the chargesheet filed by the city police on Tuesday before a special court for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The chargesheet named fellow student Arman Khatri who is out on bail after being arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide.
Solanki, a first-year student of B-Tech (Chemical) course who hailed from Ahmedabad, allegedly jumped to death from the seventh floor of a hostel building on the IITB campus in Powai area of Mumbai on February 12, 2023, a day after the semester exams ended.
Solanki's mother in her statement to police said during a telephonic conversation in December 2022, Solanki told his sister that there was caste-based discrimination at the premier institute.
IIT Bombay student death:
Handwriting analysis confirms 'suicide note' written by deceased, say cops
The Maharashtra government has
formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe his death.
The Mumbai police's SIT, which is
probing the death of IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki, has received a report
from a handwriting expert, which says the handwriting in the purported suicide
note recovered from the institute' hostel matched the writing samples of the
deceased, confirming that it was written by him, an official said on Friday.
Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad in Gujarat and was a first-year student of the B. Tech (Chemical) course, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building located on the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) campus in suburban Powai on February 12 this year.
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