India, Sept. 19 -- A First Information Report (FIR) was filed against the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay on Saturday over the alleged death by suicide of a student, hours after he was pulled up for using a mobile phone during an examination.

According to the police, the institute has been booked under section 108 (abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and provisions of the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

There was no immediate comment from IIT-Bombay on the FIR at the time of filing this report.

The development came amid massive protests by students, who alleged the victim was asked to leave the examination hall and threatened with disciplinary action, includi...