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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMUMBAI: \u201cI made a mistake by telling him to tolerate the situation.\u201d This was the regret expressed by the mother of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, who was found dead in his hostel room last week.Sahil\u2019s parents on Tuesday demanded the arrest of the institute\u2019s director Shireesh B Kedare and professor Suryanarayana Doolla, news agency PTI reported.Sahil\u2019s mother, Sonali Wakode, said she and her husband had met their son in his hostel room on September 13, when he told them he was being tortured and harassed.Speaking to ANI, she said they tried to reassure him and advised him to focus on his studies, believing he had a bright future ahead.\u201cWe tried to give him moral support and advised him to focus on his studies because he had secured admission to IIT and had a bright future ahead. In hindsight, I feel that telling him to tolerate the situation was our mistake,\u201d she said.She added, \u201cWe persuaded him, told him that he was doing great and his future was bright. Probably, that\u2019s where we faltered as parents. Had we taken him back home with us, our child would have been alive today. We know how the system works, but he was just a 19-year-old kid.\u201dThe parents made the remarks after visiting the Mumbai Police Crime Branch office, where they demanded a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding their son\u2019s death and action against those found responsible, news agency PTI reported.Sonali claimed Sahil had told his parents that he was being tortured, abused and humiliated on the basis of his caste, PTI reported.\u201cHe specifically told us that professor Suryanarayana Doolla would say, \u2018I am from an upper caste and you are from a lower caste.\u2019 According to what Sahil told us, this had been continuing for around three months,\u201d she claimed.Sahil\u2019s father Ravindra Wakode also alleged that Doolla had told his son that he belonged to an upper caste while Sahil belonged to a lower caste.\u201cHe used to tell him that he is from the upper caste while Sahil is from the lower caste. He also told him, \u2018I will implicate you in some wrong thing and will remove you.\u2019 This had been happening for the past three months,\u201d Ravindra said.He said that when Sahil narrated his ordeal, he advised him to tolerate the situation for the sake of his future.\u201cWhen he narrated his ordeal, I advised him to bear it a bit for the sake of his future,\u201d he said, speaking to ANI.The parents demanded the immediate arrest of Kedare and Doolla.Sahil\u2019s mother said she had full faith in the Crime Branch and wanted the allegations recorded in the FIR to be examined thoroughly.\u201cI have full faith in the Crime Branch and request that the investigation into my son Sahil\u2019s death be completed fairly, thoroughly, and strictly in accordance with the FIR,\u201d she said.\u201cThe allegations and circumstances recorded in the FIR must be properly investigated, and appropriate action should be taken against those found responsible,\u201d she added.The mother also objected to the institute\u2019s initial claim that Sahil had allegedly been caught using an AI platform during an examination.She said anyone making allegations of cheating must provide evidence and questioned what she described as a change in IIT Bombay\u2019s position on the matter.\u201cI am also concerned by what appears to be a change in IIT Bombay\u2019s position or statements regarding these allegations. I request the authorities to examine this carefully and determine whether such allegations have any evidentiary basis or whether they are diverting attention from the issues raised in the FIR,\u201d she said.Ravindra also defended his son\u2019s academic record, saying Sahil had cleared the JEE Advanced examination without using unfair means or cheating.\u201cMy child was good at academics. It\u2019s not easy to crack JEE Advanced. Look at his All India rank. He didn\u2019t clear JEE Advanced by using unfair means or cheating,\u201d he said.Meanwhile, a senior Crime Branch official said the statements of Sahil\u2019s parents had been recorded, PTI reported.Statements of IIT Bombay officials, including professor Doolla, were yet to be recorded and they would be summoned for questioning soon, he said.IIT Bombay has said Prof Suryanarayana Doolla was temporarily relieved of his administrative duties pending an investigation.He continues as a professor and head of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering.The institute has also apologised for its earlier communication about the circumstances preceding Sahil\u2019s death, saying those details remained subject to investigation.Sahil, a second-year BTech student in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, was found hanging in his hostel room on the Powai campus on September 18 evening, hours after being caught allegedly using a mobile phone to access ChatGPT during a mid-semester examination.The allegations made by Sahil\u2019s parents are part of the ongoing Crime Branch investigation.(With agency inputs)<\/div>\n IIT-Bombay student Sahil Wakode died by suicide MUMBAI: \u201cI made a mistake by telling him to tolerate the situation.\u201d This was the regret expressed by the mother of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, who was found dead in his hostel room last week.Sahil\u2019s parents on Tuesday demanded the arrest of the institute\u2019s director Shireesh B 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