India, April 17 -- The principal of Tolani Maritime Institute and three staffers were booked on Wednesday following a complaint lodged by the brother of a 20-year-old marine engineering student, police said on Thursday.

The student, identified as Vishal Baburam Verma, a second-year marine engineering student, died from injuries suffered after a basketball pole allegedly collapsed on him at the institute's Induri campus near Talegaon Dabhade on April 5.

The FIR was registered at Talegaon MIDC police station under the Pimpri Chinchwad police commissionerate based on the complaint filed by Ashok Baburam Verma, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. .

According to the police, the incident occurred while Vishal was exercising on the campus grounds. H...