Parents of Sahil Wakode have petitioned for an independent investigation into his death.
The same evening was their son’s last, the petition said and alleged that “proximity between humiliation, the coerced apology…and his death is direct and immediate.’’ The circumstances of the death require a full probe, the parents plead. The Mumbai police had lodged an FIR for abetment of suicide against IIT professor Suryanarayan Doolla. The parents seek that the probe should be directed specifically to the abetment of suicide by actions and illegal omissions made by persons in authority at the IIT and also be monitored by a retired Bombay HC Judge.
The petition is expected to be mentioned by advocate Prakash Ambedkar on Monday for an urgent hearing, before the HC.
MUMBAI: Ravindra and Sonali Wakode, parents of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, 20, who on September 18 had died by suicide have petitioned the Bombay high court to seek a “fair and independent investigation” either by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into his death and immediate preservation of evidence and protection of witnesses.