NCR student suicide at pvt varsity under top court lens

The Supreme Court on Monday took suo motu cognizance of student suicides at IIT Kharagpur in West Bengal and Sharda University in Greater Noida, observing that “something is wrong” as it sought a response from the two institutes on whether the cases were promptly brought to the notice of the police or not.

- Abraham Thomas

The bench of justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan issued a notice to Sharda University where a 21-year-old Bachelor of Dental Surgery student died allegedly by suicide last week and left a note following which two faculty members were arrested.

The court also took note of the death by suicide of a fourth year student at IIT Kharagpur last week, and wondered what is happening at the institute as this is the fourth such incident there in the past seven months.