Chargesheet names friend for IIT student's suicide

May 30, 2023 17:15

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The police on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against a fellow student in the case related to the alleged suicide of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 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 in Mumbai, a prosecution source said.

Khatri is now out on bail.

Solanki, a first-year student of B Tech (Chemical) course hailing from Ahmedabad, allegedly jumped to death from the seventh floor of a hostel building on IIT Bombay campus in suburban Powai on February 12, 2023, a day after the semester exams ended.

Three weeks later, a special investigation team of the Mumbai police found a one-line note from Solanki's room saying "Arman has killed me."

The police had said that Khatri allegedly threatened to kill Darshan with a paper cutter after the latter had spoken `offensively' about religion.

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