{"id":1037228,"date":"2026-09-21T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037228"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:34:07","slug":"iit-bombay-student-found-dead-in-hostel-room-after-phone-use-incident-during-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/iit-bombay-student-found-dead-in-hostel-room-after-phone-use-incident-during-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Bombay student found dead in hostel room after phone-use incident during exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old IIT Bombay student died by suicide in his hostel room after he was allegedly caught using a mobile phone during an examination, police said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The student, identified as Sahil Ravindra Wakode, was a second-year BTech student in the Energy Science and Engineering department and hailed from Maharashtra&#8217;s Yavatmal district, police said. <\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from IIT Bombay, Wakode had uploaded the examination question paper to ChatGPT to seek answers during the exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old IIT Bombay student died by suicide in his hostel room after he was allegedly caught using a mobile phone during an examination, police said on Saturday. The student, identified as Sahil Ravindra Wakode, was a second-year BTech student in the Energy Science and Engineering department and hailed from Maharashtra&#8217;s Yavatmal district, police said. According to a statement from IIT Bombay, Wakode had uploaded the examination question paper to ChatGPT to seek answers during the exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037229,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037228\/revisions\/1037229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}