00:00Let's take you straight to Mumbai where protests over the IIT Bombay suicide shocker continues.
00:05Now this protest continues to seek justice for the student Sahil Wakode who claimed his life by suicide three days
00:12ago.
00:12There's been massive sloganeering that has been going on in the streets of the financial capital with justice for Sahil
00:18placards as you can see on your screens being held at the protest side.
00:22These protests are happening outside IIT Bombay as we speak.
00:26It's a protest outside IITB asking for justice for Sahil.
00:29Remember Sahil Wakode is a second year engineering student who reportedly going by the sequence of events was caught cheating
00:36during the exam and after which he was asked to leave the examination hall.
00:42Now IIT Bombay insists that he was counseled and he was assured that he was not going to face any
00:47long term repercussions on his academic career because of that.
00:51But his family and other students insist that he was at the receiving end of a casteist attack at the
00:57hands, at the behest of Professor Nasuryanar and Dula.
01:01Now as a result, Professor Dula has been removed as dean after news came of Sahil reportedly dying by suicide.
01:10Remember no suicide note has been found so far.
01:13There has been a CCTV video which shows him coming out of the examination hall and moving towards his hostel
01:20and from there it apparently never came out.
01:24It has now been ascertained by the probe authorities as to what clues they can give about Sahil's last known
01:30movements.
01:31But this has become a big flashpoint, especially a students versus faculty flashpoint.
01:35A large part of the IIT Bombay faculty has thrown its weight behind Professor Dula saying that he was just
01:43carrying out his academic duties by ensuring fairness during the conduct of an exam.
01:47However, as you can see on his screens, protests continue in and outside the IIT Bombay campus with students claiming
01:56that what happened with Sahil was just the tip of the iceberg of a larger issue of concerns over student
02:03wellness,
02:04over fairness of treatment students and particularly over concerns over casteist practices that continue implicitly and explicitly on the IIT
02:13Bombay campus,
02:14which is why they are demanding justice.
02:17They have come up with a list of several demands.
02:19Most of some of them have been agreed to by the IIT Bombay faculty in an 18-point charter,
02:24but they insist that the investigation has to be free and fair and they want stricter action against the professor
02:32you see in the screen,
02:33Professor Suryan Arandoula.
02:34They want him to face action.
02:36Remember, he is already facing cases on charges of abetment of suicide as well under the SCST atrocity.
02:49The protest continues over the shocker which has been reported from IIT Bombay.
02:54Those are the shows you see on the right of the screens of students seeking justice for Sahil Vakure,
03:00the second year engineering student who reportedly died by suicide over the weekend.
03:06We are seeing massive sloganeering on the streets of Mumbai, both outside IIT Bombay,
03:11to complement what has already been happening inside the case for the last seven days.
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