India, Oct. 20 -- Parents of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) student who died by suicide on September 18 on Monday said that they have written to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, seeking his intervention in ensuring justice for their deceased son. They also alleged that though they had been protesting at Azad Maidan for the past 16 days, no government representative or IIT-B official had met them.

Addressing a press conference at the protest venue, the deceased student's father said that the family was not satisfied with the police probe which was underway and demanded that an officer of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) rank be appointed to investigate the case. He also raised questions about the purported apology ...