The Mumbai Police`s Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested a batchmate of IIT Bombay scholar Darshan Solanki in reference to the alleged abetment of his suicide, an legitimate stated on Sunday. The accused, diagnosed as Arman Khatri, and Solanki stayed at the identical ground of a hostel of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and each had been batchmates, he stated. In a purported suicide observe recovered via way of means of the SIT on March 3, Solanki had cited that “Arman has killed me”, the legitimate stated.
Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad in Gujarat and turned into a first-12 months scholar of the B Tech (Chemical) course, allegedly dedicated suicide via way of means of leaping off the 7th ground of a hostel constructing positioned at the IITB campus in suburban Powai on February 12 this 12 months.
The Mumbai police’s SIT these days obtained a record from a handwriting expert, which stated the handwriting withinside the purported suicide observe recovered from the institute’s hostel matched the writing samples of the deceased, confirming that it turned into written via way of means of him, an legitimate in advance stated. The Maharashtra authorities had shaped the SIT to behavior a probe into Solanki’s death.
His own circle of relatives had claimed that he confronted discrimination on the greatest institute for belonging to a Scheduled Caste (SC) network and suspected foul play in his death. However, the inquiry committee installation via way of means of the IITB had dominated out caste-primarily based totally discrimination and hinted at deteriorating instructional overall performance as a likely motive of suicide.