Overview

• Sharda University failed to notify police or file an FIR after a second-year dental student’s suicide, prompting her parents to register the case and compromising the crime scene by moving the body.
• Two professors named in the student’s suicide note have been arrested and the probe remains ongoing under heightened judicial scrutiny.
• IIT Kharagpur filed a police complaint within 30 minutes of discovering its student’s suicide, which was promptly converted into an FIR and is now under active investigation.
• Both institutions are implementing the Supreme Court’s July 25 nationwide mental health and safety guidelines, including mandatory counselling services and safety devices.
• The court will review progress and the National Task Force’s preliminary recommendations when the matter returns for hearing in four weeks.