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IIT students suicide: SIT to identify FB person to whom Darshan told about caste discrimination..
THE MUMBAI police Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the alleged death by suicide of IIT student Darshan Solanki is in the process of identifying a person with whom he chatted on Facebook about caste discrimination at the institute...
Darshan, originally from Ahmedabad, allegedly jumped off the eighth floor of his hostel building on the IIT-B campus in Powai on February 12 this year...
The letter said the chat on caste discrimination was discovered by his daughter while going through Darshans Facebook chats...
While the police have arrested Solankis batchmate Arman Kohli based on the purported suicide note left behind by Darshan, the family is not convinced and believes that it was caste discrimination at the institute that led to his death...
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