Mumbai, Sept. 26 -- Students protesting at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) held a candlelight march on Friday night from the Justice Corner at the main gate to hostel 4 to mark one week since the death by suicide of a second-year student on the campus, who stayed in hostel 4, and demanding a change in the team investigating the case.

The protesting students demanded that the existing investigation committee be dissolved, alleging concerns over its independence because some members had publicly supported Prof Suryanarayana Doolla before the inquiry concluded.

They demanded that the committee be reconstituted as an independent external body without current IIT-Bombay employees or students. They also demanded the inclusion of...