Darshan Solanki had told his fellow students at IIT Bombay that their senior Armaan Khatri, prime accused in his suicide case, would kill him no matter where he goes, according to the charge sheet filed by the SIT. Apologising for an alleged communal remark he had made against Khatri, Solanki had left him a message, stating that he was leaving Mumbai.

The Special Investigating Team (SIT) of the Mumbai police filed the charge sheet after three months of investigation into the suicide of Darshan Solanki. Darshan, the first-year BTech student at IIT-B, allegedly jumped off the seventh floor of their Powai hostel on February 12. While his family alleged that caste discrimination drove him to take his own life, police later found that he took the drastic step because he was frightened of Armaan, his senior at the college.

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