Rao Jaswant Singh Posted online: Friday, December 02, 2005 at 1202 hours IST Updated: Friday, December 02, 2005 at 1206 hours IST
Kanpur, December 2: A day after his body was found near the institute’s academic block, mystery still shrouds the death of Swapnil Chandrakant Dharaskar, the 21-year-old Mechanical Engineering student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K).
While the IIT administration declared it a suicide case, the police report, based on the post-mortem findings, do not support this theory. Even his parents, who arrived from Nagpur today, and his hostel mates found it improbable.
Swapnil’s father, Chandrakant Dharaskar, along with his wife and relatives reached the city today to claim his son’s body today. Talking to Express, he said he had visited Swapnil at IIT-K last month, from November 6-9.
Swapnil was very normal then, he said, adding, ‘‘I talked to him about his studies and other general topics. He did not appear tense.’’
Chandrakant said there was no reason for Swapnil to commit suicide. He said his son was very hard-working. He had secured 90 per cent marks in his Class XII examination and had cleared the IIT-JEE exam in his first attempt.
‘‘Swapnil had to come to Nagpur on the day he died,’’ he murmured, with tears in his eyes.
Police said they had found a letter in Swapnil’s room, written by his sister, advising him to concentrate on his studies and not worry about issues at home.
Meanwhile, Swapni’s roommate, Krishna Khandelwal, claimed that the deceased had seemed tense about his Chemistry paper which was held yesterday. ‘‘I had never seen him so worried before,’’ he added. Stating that Swapnil always completed his syllabus days before the exam, this time he could not do so. Amidst the unanswered questions, Swapnil’s body was cremated at Bithoor on Thursday.
Kanpur, December 2: A day after his body was found near the institute’s academic block, mystery still shrouds the death of Swapnil Chandrakant Dharaskar, the 21-year-old Mechanical Engineering student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K).
