Months after the Mumbai Police arrested a classmate of IIT-Bombay student Darshan Solanki for allegedly abetting his suicide based on a note, Mr. Solanki’s family members on Thursday held a press conference in Mumbai saying they had lost confidence in the investigation.
The family, led by the 18-year-old’s father, Rameshbhai Solanki, alleged that the Special Investigation Team probe was sidelining instances of caste discrimination faced by Mr. Solanki and was instead pinning the blame on one other student in a separate matter.
Weeks after the death of Mr. Solanki on February 12 inside the IIT-B campus, the Mumbai Police had said they had recovered a purported suicide note, which allegedly blamed a classmate of his - Arman Iqbal Khatri - for his death. Based on this note, the police arrested Mr. Khatri on April 9.
