New Delhi, March 25 -- The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a police investigation into the 2023 deaths by suicide of two IIT-Delhi students belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities, asserting that law enforcement authorities cannot bypass due process "just because something happened in the hostel of an eminent educational institution like IIT-Delhi".
A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan also constituted a 10-member task force, to be chaired by former top court judge S Ravindra Bhat, to examine the issue of deaths by suicide of students across educational institutions and recommend policy measures.
The petition was filed jointly by the parents of the two IIT students who claimed the deaths were not suici...