IIT Student Spoke With Family Before Ending Life, Did Not Mention About Facing Discrimination

Police investigating the alleged suicide of an Indian Institute of Know-how (IIT) Bombay pupil on Wednesday claimed he spoke to his father for about half-hour earlier than taking his personal life, however made no point out of caste discrimination, information company PTI reported. 

In line with an official, the police have begun recording testimony from his dormitory roommates so as to decide what prompted the coed, Darshan Solanki, to take such drastic measures, as acknowledged within the report. 

A pupil organisation claimed Solanki, a Dalit, was subjected to caste prejudice on campus, however the IIT Bombay administration denied the declare, as per the report.

On Sunday, the 18-year-old pupil allegedly dedicated suicide by leaping from the seventh storey of a hostel constructing on the highest institute’s Powai campus (February 12). Solanki was a first-year BTech pupil from Ahmedabad (Chemical).

In line with a senior police official concerned within the investigation, greater than a dozen individuals’s statements have been recorded up to now, the PTI report mentioned. 

He claimed that police had questioned Solanki’s mother and father, who had visited the campus following the incident if that they had any complaints towards anybody, the report added additional. In line with police statements, the coed’s mother and father didn’t oppose the investigation or present uncertainty about their son’s dying. 

As per the report, Solanki had spoken for half an hour together with his father earlier than taking his personal life, however he had not talked about encountering discrimination on the institute, acknowledged the police official.

In line with the report, Solanki had knowledgeable his father that he can be returning dwelling on February 15.

His stays have been dropped at Ahmedabad, the place dying rites have been carried out on Tuesday, in keeping with the official.

“Police are investigating the matter totally, and each facet will likely be examined to determine the precise explanation for the suicide,” PTI quoted the official as saying. 

(With Inputs From PTI)