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Sahil, a B Tech student at IIT Bombay, died by suicide after being caught using a phone during an exam. IIT said he uploaded the paper to ChatGPT for answers inside the exam hall. Police booked the faculty who caught him under the SC/ST Atrocities Act on the complaint of Sahil's father, because why not. If there’s a mechanism to spin the story from "died by suicide out of fear after getting caught cheating" into "died after being forced to cheat because evil faculty relentlessly tormented him for his caste and threatened to fail him," you might as well pull that lever. Sahil’s father claimed that "under instructions from IIT Director", faculty member Suryanarayan Dulla had been targeting his son with casteist slurs since long, a revelation that apparently only struck him post-tragedy. Caste-based activist groups and political parties will inevitably exploit this to engineer Rohith Vemula 2.0. We are drifting toward an educational environment where faculty members dare not report academic dishonesty or fail underperforming students, wary that a Atrocities case could be weaponized against them retrospectively.