NUMBER OF IIT DEATHS IN RECENT YEARS RELEASED; IIT MADRAS TOPS THE CHART
Home > News Shots > Tamil NaduBy S Vikram | Nov 14, 2019 01:46 PM
The suicide of IIT Madras student Fathima Latheef has created an uproar among the humanitarians who have been staging protest against the management to take necessary action on the person involved.
SFI protest outside IIT-M demanding a fair probe into Fatima's death #JusticeForFathimaLatheef pic.twitter.com/GdkhSqPjuS
— Poornima Murali (@nimumurali) November 14, 2019
Reportedly the suicide note of Fathima Latheef revealed the name of "Sudarshan Padmanabhan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras)” who had discriminated the girl based on religion. As Fathima Latheef belongs to Kerala, her father had approached CM Pinarayi Vijayan who also ensured necessary support to the girl's family.
“My name itself is the problem, vappichi”, she told her father.
The all india topper was forced to commit suicide due to caste-based and islamophobic harassment from the IIT teachers. pic.twitter.com/WL7yiA7Eqd
— Veni (@rebuild_kerala) November 13, 2019
Apparently, it is not the first suicide in the history of IIT as there were many across different institutions in India. The suicide count in IIT institutions was shared by one of the journalists Mahalingam Ponnuswamy via his twitter account.
As per the report, IIT madras tops the list with 14 suicides in the past 10 years followed by Kharagpur with 13 suicides and Guwahati with 8 suicides in the third place. The year 2019 has seen the most number of IIT suicides (4) in the last ten years.
சென்னை ஐஐடி டாப் 😓 #IITMadras #IITChennai #JusticeForFathimaLatheef pic.twitter.com/2CHg4E6Y7u
— Mahalingam Ponnusamy (@mahajournalist) November 14, 2019
Meanwhile, Abdul Latheef, the father of Fathima Latheef had expressed his strong stand to fight against the culprits and was quoted as saying, "My daughter faced casteist and religious discrimination from her faculties. Earlier she said that her name (Muslim name) itself is a problem there,” by Maktoobmedia.
Note: Suicide is never an option for any problem in life. For people struggling from suicidal thoughts, here is the helpline of Sneha (Suicide Prevention) Centre: 044 2464 0050.
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