IIT student climbs water tank, refuses to come down

He also demanded his father’s mobile phone to talk to his sister, which was handed over to him by a Railway Protection Force man.

When his sister, Manashi turned up in the afternoon, Ganesh, however, neither spoke to her nor climbed down.

His father Bipul Mohan Agarwal told reporters that his son, though a good student and had stayed in the USA for a long time, suffered from depression.

He said that he and his wife Promila, who lived at Deshapriya Park in south Kolkata had put up with their daughter in Salt Lake three days ago. Ganesh was staying with his daughter.

“We cannot force him to come down as he might jump. We have to convince him to come down, but so far he has not,” said a fire brigade official.