Mumbai, Sept. 22 -- The CCTV footage from the IIT-Bombay campus has emerged as a "key piece of evidence" in the investigation into the death of 22-year-old BTech student Sahil Ravindra Wakode, who allegedly died by suicide on September 18, officials said.

Wakode, a second-year student of the Energy Science and Engineering department and a native of Yavatmal, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his room at Hostel No. 4 on the IIT-Bombay campus at Powai.

According to the institute's initial statement, Wakode had been caught using a mobile phone during a mid-semester examination and uploading the question paper to ChatGPT to seek answers.

Examination supervisor Professor Suryanarayan Dulla reportedly questioned him and told him that t...