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Student suicide: IIT-Bombay refutes allegations of caste bias in institute

“It is wrong to make such accusations when the police are still investigating the case. Based on initial inputs from friends, there is no indication that the student faced any such discrimination"

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The IIT-Bombay on Tuesday rejected charges of caste bias in the institute after a first-year student allegedly committed suicide, saying initial inputs from friends suggest that there was no discrimination, and urged students to wait till police and internal probes are over.

Darshan Solanki (18) died allegedly after jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building on the Powai campus of the premier institute on Sunday. Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad, was a first-year student of the B.Tech (Chemical) course.

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