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19-year-old Arnav Laxman Khaire died by suicide after alleged assault on a local train in Thane.

Assault reportedly occurred over a dispute about speaking Marathi, according to the teen’s father.

Police have registered a case of accidental death and are investigating the incident.

A 19-year-old college student in Maharashtra’s Thane district died by suicide hours after he was allegedly assaulted on a local train for not speaking in Marathi. Police said the incident and its aftermath left him visibly distressed, and his father has linked the suicide to the beating.

According to PTI, Arnav Laxman Khaire, a first-year science student, was found hanging at his apartment in Kalyan East on Tuesday evening. He had left for college in Mulund that morning but returned

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