Mumbai, Sept. 21 -- Congress workers on Monday staged a protest outside IIT Bombay following the death of a student, allegedly by suicide.

Sahil Wakode, a student from the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, died by suicide on Friday. In an earlier statement issued on September 19, IIT Bombay had alleged that the student was caught cheating in an examination. However, the institute issued a formal apology retracting its earlier characterizations of the incident. The father of the deceased student levelled serious allegations of harassment in the complaint, saying that the professor hurled casteist slurs at the student over the last three months.

Amid a political row, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi said, "Because you are ...