Student Suicides Rates Are More Than Farmers Suicide in India 2025 Report

Student Suicides Rates: The Supreme Court established the national task force under Justice S Ravindra Bhat in order to face recent incidents of student suicides due to alleged psychological problems in higher educational institutions. This measure, according to the bench, has become necessary after observing that above student suicides, there have been incidents of farmers committing suicides to agrarian distress.

The bench noted that Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan commented on different suicide cases occurring in the institutions of higher learning around the country.

Student Suicides Rates Are More Than Farmers Suicide in India 2025 Report

“The recurring instances of student suicides in higher educational institutes, including private educational institutes, serve as a grim reminder of inadequacy and ineffectiveness of the present legal and institutional apparatus to grapple with campus mental health concerns and avert the extreme step of committing suicides by students. This tragedy highlights the urgent need for a more robust, comprehensive, and responsive mechanism able to provide for the variety of pressures that compel certain students to take their own lives,” said the bench on Monday.

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Task Force Created to Find out the Cause of Students Death

Task Force Created to Find out the Cause of Students Death

This 10-member task force draws people from a variety of fields and disciplines to introduce an interdisciplinary approach to the question of suicide prevention in the higher educational institution.

The Task Force would prepare a detailed report mapping the perceived causes common to suicide by students, including ragging, caste-based discrimination, gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, academic pressure, economic burden, stigma to mental health, discrimination on any basis of race, tribal identity, disability, sexual orientation, political beliefs, religious belief, or other bases.

Further, it will conduct a detailed evaluation of how current laws, policies, and institutional frameworks operate in the field of higher educational institutions, whether any of them recognized the problems faced by students, and recommend areas of strengthening those protections.

“The Task Force shall recommend measures to reduce any such gaps and promote an inclusive and supportive environment while ensuring equal opportunities for all marginalised communities,” the Supreme Court stated.

The apex court made this remark in a judgment that overturned the decision of the Delhi High Court to quash petitions filed by parents of two IIT Delhi students who were allegedly dead by suicide and wanted FIRs registered in this respect.

The parents alleged that the students—Ayush Ashna and Anil Kumar—”were murdered with the conspiracy of IIT faculty members to hide the real facts, and both students have been falsely shown to have committed suicide”. The complaint claimed that the students, who belonged to Scheduled Caste, had informed their parents of caste discrimination by the faculty or staff of IIT Delhi, and accused the faculty of trying to protect the real culprits.

The parents alleged that the students—Ayush Ashna and Anil Kumar—”were murdered with the conspiracy of IIT faculty members to hide the real facts, and both students have been falsely shown to have committed suicide”. The complaint claimed that the students, who belonged to Scheduled Caste, had informed their parents of caste discrimination by the faculty or staff of IIT Delhi, and accused the faculty of trying to protect the real culprits.

This tragedy highlights the urgent need for a more robust, comprehensive, and responsive mechanism able to provide for the variety of pressures that compel certain students to take their own lives,” said the bench on Monday.