Does IIT Gandhinagar administration regularly spy on their employees and students by reading emails stored on the official email server?

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Utkarsh Pal Posted On - Apr 5, 2021
BTech from IIT Roorkee

Your concerns are absolutely true and on the morning of February 17 2016 surveillance took to new heights. A student named Bhumil Acharya had committed suicide and the administration deleted his emails without a delay and shut down the campus internet to halt the spread of the news. No one was questioned and students sent a request to the Director of IIT Gandhinagar to answer the allegations. The students were spied on and they registered their protest on the unjust elements of the practice.

  • Statements like these were issued by authorities- "In my country, everyone has the freedom of expression, except when they dissent”.
  • This pointed to the dictatorial mindset of the person analogous to expressions of those heading countries like North Korea and Saudi Arabia.
  • The faculty was trained to rush the issue with speedy explanations on why the internet was shut down.
  • It downplayed the significance of life itself and the expression of which had been extinguished by the suicide.

The institute tried to put up a false image with its pictures expressing students' joy or by highlighting trivial events on social media rather than the fact that they are waving a 'Goebbelsian propaganda' in confluence with the faculty, although it will ultimately prove to be destructive because the truth cannot remain hidden.

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