Darshan Solanki case: SIT arrests IIT-Bombay student after discovering note
Mumbai (Maharashtra), April 9: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Mumbai Crime Branch police has arrested an IIT-Bombay student in connection to the suicide of an 18-year-old student of the same institute.
According to Mumbai police, a case has been registered under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Armaan Iqbal Khatri, the accused student, was detained based on a suicide note recovered from the deceased's dorm room, in which he blamed Armaan for him taking the drastic decision of ending his life.
"Armaan has killed me," the suicide letter read.
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According to Mumbai Police SIT officers, during interrogation, the accused Armaan was not answering questions properly and was not disclosing anything. Today, Armaan will be brought before the court.
Darshan Solanki allegedly ended his life on February 12, this year, at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai, by jumping from the seventh storey of a hostel building on campus.
On March 3, a Mumbai Police special investigation team (SIT) discovered a "suicide note" in his hostel room in which the deceased accused one student of harassing and threatening him.
According to the cops, "The handwriting expert said in his report that the suicide note recovered by the police is written by Darshan Solanki. The expert sent the report to the police on Thursday night."
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- ANI
