A 22-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay committed suicide in his hostel room after he was allegedly caught using his mobile phone during an examination, police said on Saturday.
According to a statement from IIT Bombay, Sahil Ravindra Wakode, a native of Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district, had uploaded the examination question paper to ChatGPT to seek answers during the exam.
The death is the third reported case of suicide at the IIT Bombay campus in Powai in seven months.
In February, a second-year student died by suicide in a hostel. In July 2026, at the beginning of the new semester, a 20-year-old second-year BTech student also died by suicide.
Wakode was a second-year BTech student in the Energy Science and Engineering department, police said.
He was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his room in Hostel Number 4 on the Powai campus on Friday, an official said.
He said that the death came to light after his hostel mates noticed no response from his r
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