Charge sheet filed in IIT-Bombay student's death
The Hindu
Darshan Solanki, a first-year student of BTech (Chemical) course hailing from Ahmedabad, was found dead on February 12, 2023
Police on May 30 filed a charge sheet against a fellow student in the case related to the alleged suicide of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) student Darshan Solanki.
The charge sheet was filed against Arman Khatri in a special court for cases under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act here, a prosecution source said.
Mr. Khatri is now out on bail.
Solanki, a first-year student of BTech (Chemical) course hailing from Ahmedabad, was found dead on February 12, 2023, a day after the semester exams ended.
Three weeks later, a special investigation team (SIT) of Mumbai police found a one-line note from Solanki's room saying “Arman has killed me”.
Police had said that Mr. Khatri allegedly threatened to kill Darshan with a paper cutter after the latter had spoken `offensively' about religion.
The All-India level NEET examination was started a few years ago to counter complaints of corruption during the joint entrance examinations held at the State level. AIDSO had warned the authorities that the solution to the menace of corruption was not changing the examination system, but to investigate the corruption and punish the guilty.