'No complaint received by SC/ST cell from Wakode': IIT-B prof on student suicide case

NEW DELHI: IIT Bombay faculty forum president and professor Rajkumar Pant has rejected allegations against professor Suryanarayana Doolla following the death of second-year BTech student Sahil Wakode, saying the institute's SC/ST cell had no record of the student approaching it with a complaint in the months preceding his death.Pant said he spoke to IIT Bombay deputy director professor Ravindra Gudi, who confirmed that the SC/ST cell had issued a notice stating that there had been no attempt by Sahil to approach the cell in the previous three or four months.“There was absolutely no attempt by the late Sahil to approach the cell over the last three or four months.