Sushant Rohilla, a third-year law student from Amity law School in Delhi, committed suicide on 10 August for not being able to appear for his semester exams as the college authorities didn't allow him citing his low attendance. The news of Rohilla's death has stirred the internet after his friends and family outraged on social media.
Soon after the suicide, Dinesh Rohilla, Sushant's uncle took to social media accusing the college. He even revealed the letter Sushant had addressed to the college before taking his life.
#JusticeForSushant
In his suicide note, Sushant mentioned he failed.
HE WAS ANYTHING BUT A FAILURE. THE COLLEGE FAILED HIM.— Avni Sharma (@AvniSharmaa) August 16, 2016
Later Jagdish Kumar and Mehak Rohilla – Sushant's father and sister – expressed their anguish and demanded justice for the law student.
After a series of posts from the family, Sushant's friends joined in and started demanding justice for their fellow comrade. #JusticeforSushant has become all the rage on social media.
The reason behind this extreme step was because the college debarred him from giving his exams due to his unfullfilment of attendance
— Teerth Waraich (@WesterosKaKing) August 15, 2016
This is not an attendance issue. This is a harassment issue. #JusticeForSushant
— Avni Sharma (@AvniSharmaa) August 16, 2016
An arbitrary system stole away our friend. We miss you, Sushant. #JusticeForSushant https://t.co/53lUbog1Td
— Mehrunnissa (@mitaliminigupta) August 14, 2016
Twitteratti too voiced their views about the partiality that exists in our education system and how teachers and the management should stop differentiating between students.
Our college has a 75% attendance norm but it is completely arbitrary. They forgave attendance for Miss India contestant but killed my friend
— Teerth Waraich (@WesterosKaKing) August 15, 2016
There's something inherently broken in ALL facets of the system w/ teachers, w/ students, our treatment of mental health & our expectations
— Aditi Mittal (@awryaditi) August 16, 2016
When will our education systems wake up to wanting brilliance and progress over trivial archaic rules & regs? #JusticeForSushant
— Shaira Mohan (@ShairaSMohan) August 17, 2016
Why did Sushant die? Because of the callous and dictatorial attitude adopted by the management of Amity Law School, IP Univeristy.
— Teerth Waraich (@WesterosKaKing) August 15, 2016
The incident led to many students sharing similar issues they faced in the past due to Amity and other institutions.
After AIB's Rohan Joshi and Aditi Mittal shared their experiences and thoughts on this issue. Rohan published a series of tweets explaining the incidents that led to him dropping out of engineering college and termed this episode as 'soul-crushing'.
As a student- I had teachers who hated me (duh), 1 gave me 1/100 in English Lit (the 1 subj. I knew) coz I had "numbered the answers wrong"
— Aditi Mittal (@awryaditi) August 16, 2016
Students have been protesting against the management and have submitted a manifesto.
Get in touch with us, we will tell you the fear we live in. No creativity, no growth, no life. #JusticeForSushant pic.twitter.com/2JxUpLZP42
— Sukriti Gandhi (@Suks29) August 16, 2016
The manifesto which has been put forward to the authorities today. #JusticeForSushant pic.twitter.com/Jwo3oQHARP
— Shivang (@dhichkyaoon) August 16, 2016
According to The Indian Express, Savita Mehta, vice-president communications of Amity Group, issued a statement about Sushant's low attendance and intimation about the same with parents. However, Sushant's sister Mehak and friends have ruled this out claiming that he had missed classes only because of a foot injury and other college events.
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Updated Date: Aug 17, 2016 16:07:54 IST
