> pretending to be too gangsta to care.

> I don't know much about India, but if you're going to go that route, it better be as easy to make it by there as a uni drop-out as it is in the US

It's affluenza.

His dad's a Colonel in the Indian Army and a senior bureaucrat who worked on infrastructure and civilian-military airport development ($$$).

Worst case this kid lays low for a couple months, gets admitted into a private university in India thanks to daddy, and his dad will use his network to get him a job and start his career.

That said, given the way he wrote the article, the comments he made on HN, and the kinds of comments I've seen users make on iitsocial (some homophobic and sexual harassment posts targeting students who happened to be lower caste) I could see someone getting pissed enough to file an FIR on him under IPC 354 (non-bailable), 504, 505, and 509 as well as the SC/ST Act to make an example out of him.

Even if he is found not guilty, getting an FIR means you will never get a visa anywhere (because all countries ask about your criminal background) and getting a job would be extremely difficult without family support.

And becuase this would have become a big news story which would have made IITD's admin look bad (rich upper caste son of a Colonel aided and abetted in sexual harassment of OBC woman at IITD) during election season they tried to give him an offramp, which he stupidly ignored.

Edit:

Jesus, he admitted to committing defamation with full cognizance [0] (and it's already been archived [1]).

> "ok so i was just doing marketing, we were uploading rumors and gossip about people"

Yeah, he can't be saved. He can get an FIR filed against him under IPC 499 and can easily be found guilty of defamation under IPC 500 (non-bailable) on top of the other IPCs listed and the SC/ST Act.

[0] - https://monyatwu.com/dailyblog/day29/

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20260406220532/https://monyatwu....