Help Us Get Truth Out: Sahil Wakode Parents' Truth To IIT Students

The parents of Sahil Wakode, a 20-year-old student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay who died by suicide last week, have made an emotional appeal to students at the institute, urging them to continue protesting and to preserve any evidence relating to their son's death.In a video message addressed to IIT Bombay students, Sahil's father said he had been unable to enter the campus despite travelling there two or three times. He said he planned to begin a hunger strike at Mumbai's Azad Maidan from Monday to press for access to the institute and demand justice for his son."I am Sahil's father, and this is Sahil's mother. I have one request to make to you. The police are not allowing me to enter IIT Bombay. I have come there two or three times and had to return.
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