IIMA student suicide: Police says, father claiming someone harassed victim

The father of the IIMA student who died allegedly by suicide has claimed that someone from the institute was harassing his son over an event that was to be sponsored by a private organisation, police said on Saturday. The student, Akshit Hemant Bhukya (24), who was studying in the second year of the MBA programme at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), was found hanging from the metal grille of the ventilator in his hostel room on Thursday. Bhukya's father has claimed that someone from IIMA was harassing his son over the use of the IIMA logo by a private institute for an event, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 1) Himanshu Verma said. Prima facie, this does not appear to be the reason why the student took the extreme step, but police will register an offence if something comes up in the ongoing investigation, he said. A Vastrapur police station official said that the matter related to the use of the IIMA logo was resolved on September 20. The private institute eve