{
  "id": 8409755,
  "title": "IIT Bombay Shares Statement After Student Dies By Suicide Hours After Exam Cheating Incident",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/iit-bombay-shares-statement-after-student-dies-by-suicide-hours-after",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-19T06:57:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/iit-bombay-shares-statement-after-student-dies-by-suicide-hours-after-exam-cheating-incident-mumbai-news"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Mumbai: IIT Bombay has issued a statement following the death of a second-year student from its Department of Energy Science and Engineering. The tragic incident occurred on Friday evening, just hours after the student was discovered using a mobile phone during an examination. The student, named Sahil Wakode, was found hanging in his fourth-floor hostel room on IIT Bombay's Powai campus. No suicide note was discovered within his room.\n\nThe Powai police confirmed there was no disciplinary action taken against the student for the cheating incident. The institute stated that the matter was discussed with both the student and his instructor, who provided counseling and assured him that the incident would not affect his academic career. He later returned to his hostel room.\n\nConcerned friends discovered Wakode after he failed to respond to their calls and broke open the locked door to find him dead. The incident sparked protests amongst IIT Bombay students, who demanded answers from various administration officials and called for a review of the institute's disciplinary code of conduct. Students also claimed that this was the fourth suicide reported at the institute in the past year.\n\nIIT Bombay expressed grief over the student's death and pledged to extend support to his friends, classmates, faculty members, and other affected individuals. The circumstances surrounding the death are under investigation by the appropriate authorities. The Powai police registered an accidental death report and initiated an investigation, seizing the student's mobile phone to retrieve data and collecting CCTV footage from the campus.",
  "summary": "Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has issued a statement after a second-year student of its Department of Energy Science and Engineering allegedly died by suicide in his hostel room on Friday evening, hours after he was found using a mobile phone during an examination. The student, identified as Sahil Wakode, was found hanging in his fourth-floor room at Hostel No. 4 on the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}