Thiruvananthapuram, April 15 -- The first-year Dalit dental student of a private college in Kerala's Kannur district, who allegedly died by suicide, received 98 calls and dozens of text messages in the last three months from recovery agents to repay a loan he had taken for his mother's treatment in December last year, the seven-member Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the case told reporters on Tuesday. The loan recovery agents had also contacted a faculty member of the college and pressurised her to force the student to repay the loan, the SIT said. The Cyber cell has earlier booked the loan app on the teacher's complaint. The Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) student had succumbed to injuries sustained in a fall from the third-storey of the medical college building in Anjarakkandy on April 10. On Monday, police had booked two faculty members for abetment to suicide and caste-based harassment. Both teachers remain absconding, police said The family of the first-year student said Tuesday, however, reiterated that they believe he took his life due to the relentless casteist harassment and remarks on his skin colour from the faculty members, not threats from the loan app recovery agents. "We firmly believe that the threats from the loan app agents was not the reason behind his suicide. Something has happened in that college which forced him to do this. The police inquiry must not be restricted to the loan app transactions. We have been paying back the loan. So it definitely couldn't have been that," the student's sister said. Meanwhile, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday called the death of the student as 'extremely painful', adding that the incident must force the community to ponder whether the progressive values acquired by the state over the years have been frittered away....