Sahil Wakode’s death, whatever its cause, is a verdict on a system that has failed its students and exposes the rot that has claimed three young lives

The death of Sahil Wakode, a second-year B.Tech student in IIT Bombay’s Department of Energy Science and Engineering, has shaken India’s academic conscience and dominated national headlines. On September 18, hours after he was allegedly caught using a mobile phone during a mid-semester examination-accused of uploading the question paper to an AI platform for answers-Wakode was found dead in his hostel room. No suicide note was recovered. What followed was swifter and murkier: protests erupted across the Powai campus, an FIR was registered under the abetment-to-suicide provision and the SC/ST Act, and within days, Professor........

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