On February 18, two students from IIT Bombay discussed how Darshan Solanki’s roommate “reduced his interaction” with him after asking Solanki his rank in JEE.
Darshan, 18, was a first-generation Dalit student of chemical engineering. He allegedly died by suicide on February 12. Eighteen days later, a 12-member committee, set up by IIT Bombay’ to internally investigate his death, ruled in its report – which Newslaundry accessed – that there was “no specific evidence of direct caste-based discrimination”.
