Darshan Solanki, who fell to his death from the seventh floor of an IIT-B building last month, took his own life probably because of “poor academic performance”, according to the institute’s probe panel. In a report submitted to the central government, it has ruled out any caste bias. The 18-year-old Gujarat boy’s father has refused to accept the IIT-B findings. Meanwhile, a probe by the police SIT is underway.

The 12-member probe committee of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, was formed on February 18 for an internal probe into the death of Darshan, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste (SC). The report, submitted to the Centre on March 2, stated that Darshan once told a friend of his that he would return to Ahmedabad and study some other course there.