Overview
- IIT Bombay says a second‑year student uploaded an exam question paper to ChatGPT and was found using a mobile phone during the test before instructors counselled him and did not initiate formal disciplinary action.
- Hours after the exam incident on Friday, the student was found dead in his hostel room and Powai police filed an Accidental Death Report and sent the body for post‑mortem examination.
- Mumbai Police have seized the student’s mobile phone, collected campus CCTV footage and registered an FIR against people linked to the exam incident as the probe continues.
- Protesting students and the deceased’s parents say he was harassed and threatened with suspension, claims that contradict the institute’s account and remain unverified by investigators.
- The case has intensified scrutiny of IIT Bombay’s mental‑health services, disciplinary procedures and how institutions detect and respond to AI use in exams after this is reported as the third student suicide on the Powai campus in about seven months.