India, March 24 -- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a police probe into the deaths of two IIT Delhi students belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities in 2023, while constituting a task force to examine the issue of student suicides across educational institutions and recommend policy measures. The task force will be chaired by former top court judge Justice S Ravindra Bhat and include representatives from the ministries of education, social welfare, women and child development, and law and justice.

"We direct the DCP [South-West District, New Delhi] to register the First Information Report in line with two respective complaints lodged in writing by the kith and kin of the two students who committed su...