The student also accused the teacher of casually grabbing her hand while she sat on the bench, allegedly commenting on how his hand felt cold.

Tarun, a 19-year-old college student from Thane, died by suicide after an alleged assault on a train linked to the Hindi–Marathi language row. Raj Purohit condemned the incident.

A day after a student from Thane died by suicide following an argument over not speaking Marathi in a local train, his father said that his son kept repeating that he was beaten up ruthlessly.