India, Sept. 24 -- Police on Thursday detained Congress MP Varsha Gaikwad, dozens of other party workers and NSUI activists protesting outside the IIT Bombay campus to express solidarity with the family of student Sahil Wakode, who allegedly died by suicide, an official said.

Wakode (22), a second-year BTech student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, was found hanging in his hostel room on September 18 evening, hours after being caught allegedly using a mobile phone to access ChatGPT during a mid-semester examination. His parents have claimed that he had told them about caste-based slurs he faced.

Gaikwad, other Congress workers and members of the National Students' Union of India (NSUI), the party's students' wing, sta...