India, July 29 -- New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Monday called for the probe into student suicide deaths at Sharda University and IIT Kharagpur to proceed "expeditiously, in accordance with the law", while questioning the silence of Sharda University in reporting the incident and directing IIT Kharagpur to ascertain the reason for four student deaths at the institute over the past seven months.

A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan had taken suo motu cognisance of the two incidents as part of its broader directions passed in March for setting up a National Task Force (NTF) to identify causes behind increasing student suicides.

"We are doing this for our children, our progeny," it said, as it took up responses filed by the tw...