On Monday of the Supreme Court established a national task force of 10 members under Justice (RETD) Ravindra Bhat to analyze the causes of students’ suicides and suggest measures to avoid such deaths on campus. The team will include doctors and experts in mental health.
The directive occurred when the court arrested the police for not presenting a case in the suicide of two Iit-Delhi students in 2023 despite their parents alleging casteist harassment. SC asked the police to present a FIR and investigate the accusations. He said the police could not take a shortcut “just because something happened in the shelter of a … institution like Iit Delhi.”
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The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to examine the issue of mental health problems on campus and establish a national task force of 10 members under a former court of the Apex Court.
A JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan Judges listened to a request from the parents of two Iit-Delhi students who had taken the extreme step in 2023. Holding that FIRS’s accommodation was mandatory in cognizable crimes, the court took the Delhi police for not staying in a case of the parents that the two students died from the suicide after the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast cases of the coast of the cases.
He ordered the Delhi Police to present a FIR and initiate an investigation by an officer who is not below the police assistant commissioner range about accusations of caste discrimination in IIT-D.
Pointing out that 98 students had died for suicide in the main top -level educational institutes since 2018 – 39 in IIT, 25 in NIT, 25 in central universities, four in Iims, three in Iisers and two at IIIT: the bank expanded the litigation initiated by the injured parents and established a task force headed by Judge SC Ravindra Bhat to analyze and suggest the measures of prevention of such Suicides The psychiatrist Alok Sarain, the professors of Clinical Psychology Mary E John and Sema Mehrotra, and the main defender Aparna Bhat.
“The recurring instances of the students’ suicides in higher educational institutions, even in private educational institutions, serve as a gloomy reminder of the insufficiency and ineffectiveness of the existing legal and institutional framework to address the mental health concerns of students on campus and to prevent students from taking the extreme step,” he said.
The Court asked the panel to prepare a comprehensive report on predominant causes that led to such suicides, including, among others, ancestry, caste -based discrimination, gender -based discrimination, sexual harassment, academic pressure, financial burden, stigma related to mental health, discrimination based on ethnicity, tribal identity, disability, disability, sex political opinions, religious belief or any other land or other land.
Raising Delhi police for not presenting a case in the suicides of Iit-Delhi, the bank said: “Even if the police were the opinion that there was no real element in which the recurring had alleged (the students of the students), it could only have said that something of the institution of FIR and the investigation of education. The police quickly came to the conclusion that the two children were in some kind of depression, since they did not do well in their studies, since they did not “