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IIT Bombay student death case: Wakode's parents spent 8 hours at Crime Branch office
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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth nations. A force's CID is distinct from its Special Branch. The name derives from the CID of the Metropolitan Police, formed on 8 April 1878 by C. E. Howard Vincent as a re-formation of its Detective Branch. British colonial police forces all over the world adopted the terminology developed in the UK in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and later the police forces of those countries often retained it after independence.
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The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is a public research university and technical institute in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is one of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology created to be a Centre of Excellence for India's training, research and development in science, engineering and technology. The institute has 17 academic departments, 35 additional academic centres, and three schools. Established in 1958, IIT Bombay was designated as an Institution of Eminence in 2018.
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The Mumbai Crime Branch on Thursday recorded the statements of 20 people in connection with the death of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, sources told news agency ANI.
The probe into the case has seen the Crime Branch record statements of 20 persons so far, with efforts also underway to access the deceased student