India, Oct. 19 -- A month after a student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay died by suicide, his parents were detained by the police on Sunday while they were speaking to students protesting on campus against the incident.

"We had gone to the institute to pay homage to our son. While we were talking to the students who have been protesting for justice and raising various demands, the police forcefully picked us up and put us in a police van," the student's father told reporters.

Advocate Siddharth Ingale, the family's lawyer, said he too was detained along with the deceased student's parents and taken to a police station around 28 km away from the institute. "We were released after nearly three hours," Ingale said.

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