Mumbai, Sept. 22 -- Security has been beefed up at the IIT Bombay campus in Powai on Tuesday amid tensions on the campus following the death by suicide of second-year BTech student Sahil Ravindra Wakode, with protests by students and a counter-protest by faculty members over the role of Professor Suryanarayana Doolla.

The situation comes a day after the IIT Bombay Faculty Forum staged a campus march in support of Doolla, who has been suspended from the deanship, while student representatives issued a statement clarifying that their protest was not intended to justify cheating or any form of academic misconduct.

The student representatives said their protest was aimed at raising concerns over systemic issues within the institute and seek...