Mumbai: Family of IIT-B student who died by suicide demands in-depth probe

Student body wants director sacked

A day after the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) categorically denied that there was any on-campus harassment of the first year B Tech student who died by suicide, his family has said that he was constantly harassed by senior students.  “This is murder, not a suicide,” said Ramesh Solanki, the father of the first-generation Dalit student, Darshan, who died after allegedly jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel on Sunday.

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