A top rights group of the country, People’s Union for Civil Liberties on Saturday expressed extreme distress by the alleged suicide of Darshan Solanki, first generation Dalit student, of first year B. Tech, at IIT Bombay on February 12 2023.

In a statement, PUCL’s Maharashtra chapter said that Solanki had confided in his elder sister and aunt about the discrimination he faced at the institute.