TNN Sep 27, 2011, 01.18pm IST
KANPUR: Scores of students came out on roads in Kakadeo locality in protest against the IIT-Kanpur administration over the suicidal death of Mehtab Ahmed, a BTech first-year student at the institute.
Most of the aspiring students were aspirants of Joint Entrance Exam of 2012.
During their protest, they were holding banners and placards in their hands condemning the ever-increasing cases of suicides at IIT-K.
The students also raised slogans criticising the IIT-K director and demanded a probe into the entire matter.
They alleged that ten students have committed suicide at IIT-Kanpur so far and institute's administration had done nothing about it.
The protest was led by Kilkil Sachan, a rusticated student of IIT-Kanpur.
Meanwhile, a maths teacher of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University, V N Pal, also staged a dharna at IIT-Kanpur gate. He was supported by nearly one dozen students. Pal said that this protest was staged to awaken the sleeping IIT-Kanpur administration over the increasing cases of suicides at the institute.
