“Mujhse galti ho gayi hai [I have made a mistake,” Sahil Wakode told his girlfriend, according to the police account. He also spoke about his earlier Thermodynamics paper and said, “My earlier thermodynamics paper didn’t go well, and now this has happened.”
IIT Bombay Sociology Professor Suryakant Waghmore has openly opposed Faculty Forum for backing Professor Suryanarayana Doolla in the Sahil Wakode suicide case.
What initially appeared to be a case of a student taking his own life after being caught cheating during his mid-semester examinations has now turned into a wider controversy involving allegations of caste-based harassment.
Tamil Nadu BJP leader Ananthan Ayyasamy has strongly opposed invoking the SC/ST Act against the IIT Bombay professor who caught Sahil Wakode using a mobile and an AI chatbot to solve the question paper.
Professor Doolla's suspension from the key administrative position was communicated to students via an email by IIT Bombay Director Professor Shireesh Kedare on Monday.
The dexterity at which a caste discrimination spin has been given to the suicide of a Dalit student who was caught cheating during the exam at IIT Bombay, has reignited the debate around the Leftist ideological takeover of India's premier technical institutions.
Over the years, a pattern of the weaponisation and misuse of the SC/ST Act has emerged. Those eligible to invoke the SC/ST Act are misusing the law in cases of personal disputes, property matters, or for financial compensation.
Jamui Irrigation office worker Gajendra Kumar Chaubey also claims in the video that he was being singled out because he belongs to the Brahmin community.