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IIT-Mumbai student moves court seeking discharge in suicide abetment case

Mumbai July 10 (UNI) After withdrawing the petition from the Bombay High Court, Aman Khatri, an IIT Mumbai student, has filed a plea before a special SC-ST court seeking discharge in an abetment- to-suicide case of his batch mate Darshan Solanki, who died on February 12, 2023 after jumping from the seventh-floor of his hostel building in Powai area of Mumbai suburb.
On April 9, 2023, police arrested Khatri in the case after a note was found in the room of Solanki who was a student of chemical engineering.
Earlier Khatri had approached the Bombay High Court for quashing of the case, citing several irregularities in the case, and that he had nothing to do with Solanki’s suicide.
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