00:00But what about this being a country for young people?
00:04Well, let's move our focus and shift our focus to what's happening in IT Bombay.
00:08The probe into the IT Bombay student's alleged suicide case,
00:12Sahil Vakode's death, is focusing on his locked iPhone now.
00:16You heard that right, his locked iPhone.
00:18Police are yet to access the phone's data.
00:20They're saying that the device is protected by a pattern lock,
00:23something we all have on our phones.
00:25And investigators say that even those close to Sahil did not know it,
00:29so they've not been able to crack it open.
00:32Yes, you heard that right.
00:33The phone could provide crucial clues, including his searches and digital activity
00:37around the September 18th examination.
00:41Police are also reconstructing the 47-minute window.
00:44Sahil left the exam hall at 12.38pm and reached the hospital at 1.25pm.
00:49CCTV footage is being examined to track his movements across the campus.
00:53His laptop has been sent for examination for forensic analysis.
00:57More than 20 students, faculty members and staff have been questioned.
01:00Police are now correlating the phone, laptops, CCTV footage and witness statements
01:05if they manage to open the phone.
01:07They may also seek advanced technical assistance to unlock the phone.
01:11We really hope they do.
01:12Meanwhile, the Maharashtra State Commission for Scheduled Cast has begun its probe,
01:17meeting the IT Bombay director there, Sahil's classmates,
01:20and also directing preservation of the CCTV footage.
01:23At Mumbai's Azad Maidan, meanwhile, Sahil's parents are on hunger strike.
01:28They are demanding that the Professor Doula's arrest take place,
01:32a fair probe and CBI investigation take place.
01:35For investigators, the focus remains on reconstructing Sahil's final hours.
01:39But at the moment, they are waiting for the phone to be unlocked.
01:48They are waiting for the phone to be unlocked.
02:13They are waiting for the phone to be unlocked.
02:43They are waiting for the phone to be unlocked.
02:51I have a few teachers of the people who are at home,
02:58I have a few teachers that are whose numbers are not completed.
03:06I have to wait for me to leave the phone.
03:07My doctor is in charge of the police,
03:07the police and the police officer are on their own.
03:11I do not know anything there.
03:11I'm settling.
03:13What is it?
03:14You have to leave a little knowledge.
03:16You are all good people.
03:18You all know.
03:19Just the other thing is about us.
03:21You talked about Rahul Gandhi.
03:25What did you talk about?
03:27They asked him.
03:29They asked him.
03:30They asked him.
03:31We didn't do anything.
03:35Passionate appeal there by the parents.
03:38Let me take that question to Devesh Singh then.
03:40Devesh, this question has a lot of unanswered questions here.
03:47This entire case.
03:49Can we just go by what's established and what's not?
03:52Is it true that it is completely established that Sahil was indeed caught cheating?
03:57That part is established.
03:58Am I correct?
04:01Let me tell you the details that were primarily shared by the IITB administration to the police.
04:08After Sahil Bakode was found dead in his hostel rooms.
04:14First details.
04:15What happened to him?
04:16What had happened earlier?
04:18A few hours back.
04:20So, details were shared by the administration to the police that Sahil Bakode, a second year student at IITB, energy
04:28science student.
04:29During the exam, the professor, the invigilator caught him using a mobile phone.
04:35He had uploaded the question paper on chat JPP and was allegedly writing down answers from the mobile phone on
04:44the answer sheet.
04:45Now, this has been shared by the IITB administration.
04:49So, that part is established.
04:50I want to understand this because I want to go turn by turn, Devesh on this one.
04:54So, it's established that he was found cheating.
04:56A lot could have happened when the professor was talking to him because we don't know.
05:00It's a he-shed, she-shed conversation at the moment.
05:04Does the FIR filed by the parents establish, acknowledge that he was indeed cheating?
05:09And what are they alleging?
05:11That it was only Professor Dula who perhaps said something to him after he was found cheating,
05:17that he found too much to take and which is why he took his life.
05:19Is that what the FIR is saying?
05:21What's their allegation?
05:23Well, here there are two allegations or rather two complaints.
05:29The first complaint is how big their son died and that needs to be investigated.
05:34And the professor who caught him needs to be investigated for abitment to suicide.
05:41Now, after that, on the third day, on the second day, they performed the last rites, rituals.
05:50And the third day, they again came back to Mumbai and registered their protest against Professor
05:59Syrian Arayan Dula, the investigator who had caught Kyle, allegedly cheating.
06:06Okay, I'm again using this word, allegedly, because the probe is still at a very preliminary stage.
06:12Let the police probe the case and let them come out with details.
06:16It will be there in their chat sheet.
06:18But as of now, we'll use allegedly for it.
06:21Then, now the CCTV footage is out.
06:24But the parents in their statement to the crime branch, the case was then transferred from the local police,
06:33the Pawai police station to the Mumbai crime branch.
06:36And then, they made allegations under the SCST prevention of atrocities.
06:43Got it.
06:44against Professor Dula and also against the Dean of the Institute.
06:49That on 13, now on the second, when they recorded their complaint with the crime branch,
06:55they, this was on the third day, they said that on 13, they had spoken to their son.
07:01And then their son had said that on directions of the Dean, Professor Dula was allegedly targeting him
07:09and using casteist flush against him.
07:13He also went on to say that I would frame you.
07:17Now what, how will we frame him?
07:20What kind of framing you are talking about?
07:22Or what are the allegations?
07:23That are still not known.
07:25But the parents then told Sahil that it is just two years that you have to be there in the
07:30Institute.
07:31Somehow try and manage it.
07:33You will have a very good career further when you complete your graduation.
07:37And rather the engineering study.
07:41Now, the 13th September allegation is the root or is the complaint which has been alleged against Professor Dula.
07:53And also they have somehow said that the Dean Shirish Kedare was also responsible.
08:00So, they have bragged his name also.
08:03And they have given statements.
08:04They have spoken to India today.
08:06They have spoken to Ajstak.
08:07And again and again, they have said that their son was being targeted.
08:12Now, what has Mumbai police done till now?
08:15Around 25 statements have been recorded till this morning.
08:20Which includes students who were present in the examination hall.
08:25Which includes authority.
08:25Have any of his friends spoken, Devesh, about the fact that he was being targeted?
08:29Any testimonies there from anybody apart from Sahil's word for it?
08:34Well, not Sahil's words also exactly.
08:39Parents' words.
08:40Not Sahil.
08:41Yeah.
08:42Also, the people who have spoken to police, police have yet not revealed or the information
08:48if at all it is there or such allegations if at all they are there.
08:53That have not come out.
08:54Okay.
08:55That have not been shared or that have not been, that is not in public domain yet by the investigators
09:05or the crime bank investigating the case.
09:08Got it.
09:08So, Devesh there, putting a lot of light there.
09:10He's saying we have to still say that it was lead cheating.
09:13We don't know what was he doing on his phone.
09:14He was using his phone.
09:15Was it for a calculator?
09:16Was it to do something else?
09:17We do not know.
09:18And the fact that the complaint says that even earlier there was pressure from the same
09:21professor, which has now been filed by the police, will that be taken into account as
09:25well?
09:25This case has so many open-ended questions.
09:27We really, really hope that an impassionate inquiry is done and we really get to understand
09:31the truth in this matter.
