{
  "id": 9167670,
  "title": "Congress accuses Centre of hiding IIT student suicide data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/congress-accuses-centre-of-hiding-iit-student-suicide-data",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-22T17:27:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/congress-accuses-centre-of-hiding-iit-student-suicide-data/article71496839.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Congress party has accused the government of withholding data on suicides at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), alleging that more than half of the students who died by suicide in these premier institutions over the past five years belonged to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities. Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal claimed that the Ministry of Education deliberately excluded suicide-related data from its response to a parliamentary question he had raised in December 2025. The Congress leader linked the issue to the death of Sahil Wakode, an SC student at IIT-Bombay, and demanded an explanation from the government on why the data was not disclosed.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "IIT Bombay exam hall incident to student’s mental state: How police are probing suicide case",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/iit-bombay-exam-hall-incident-to-students-mental-state-how-police-are",
        "published": "2026-09-22T12:33:58.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}