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IIT Bombay student death: Parents spend eight hours with Crime Branch
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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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Sahil Wakode's parents spent eight hours at the Mumbai Crime Branch as investigators continued the IIT Bombay death probe. The case has intensified scrutiny over alleged caste discrimination, exam events and institutional accountability.
The parents of Sahil Wakode, an IIT Bombay student who died by suicide on September 18, spent eight hours at the Bandra West office of the Mumbai Crime Branch o
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