Archive · 24 Sep 2026
Sahil Wakode’s parents begin hunger strike, seek IIT-B officials’ arrest
Sahil Wakode was a student at IIT Bombay who died by suicide last week.
His parents want officials named in the police case to be arrested.
They began a hunger strike at Azad Maidan in Mumbai.
The parents had planned to protest outside the IIT Bombay campus.
They say they were forcibly taken out of Mumbai earlier.
Their lawyer said police detained them in Bhandup on Thursday.
Police also detained Congress activists protesting outside the campus.
The parents had previously raised their demand with the National Commission for Backward Classes.
Sahil Wakode’s parents began a hunger strike at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan on Thursday.
They are demanding the arrest of officials named in the FIR over their son’s death.
Wakode, an IIT Bombay student, died by suicide last week.
The couple alleges they were forcibly taken out of Mumbai before a planned campus protest.
Their lawyer said Mumbai Police detained them in Bhandup while they were traveling to IIT Bombay.
- Who
- Sahil Wakode’s parents, Ravindra and Sonali Wakode, along with their lawyer and protesting Congress activists.
- What
- The parents began a hunger strike and demanded arrests of officials named in the FIR concerning Wakode’s death.
- When
- Thursday; Wakode died by suicide the previous week.
- Where
- Azad Maidan and the IIT Bombay campus in Mumbai; the parents were reportedly detained in Bhandup.
- Why
- The parents are seeking what they describe as accountability and action in the investigation into their son’s death.
- Student
- Sahil Wakode, an IIT Bombay student
- Parents
- Ravindra and Sonali Wakode
- Protest action
- Hunger strike
- Protest location
- Azad Maidan, Mumbai
- Main demand
- Arrest of officials named in the FIR
- Police action
- The lawyer said Mumbai Police detained the parents in Bhandup
- Earlier representation
- The parents raised their arrest demand with the National Commission for Backward Classes