[hnsdev]

The college was being abusive and they probably cannot take your phone and delete your stuff. What an awful thing to happen. By the way, the dean was not being nice by visiting you, don't go through Stockholm Syndrome, he was checking on you because he knew what he did was wrong.

[Ajedi32]

IIT Delhi is in India so I'm not sure what the law looks like there, but yeah a university physically stealing an adult's phone and deleting his personal photos would definitely be illegal in the states.

I wonder if Delhi is the equivalent of a one-party or two-party consent state in the US? If it's one-party then OP recording their conversation wasn't even illegal.

[alephnerd]

Two-Party consent.

And just like Zucc he is shielded by privilege - his father's a senior bureaucrat in the MoD who attended the NDA.

Additionally, based on the comments on iitsocial, a large number of users were commenting how it was devolving into a doxxing mill.

Doesn't matter, he'll land on his feet given his familial background.

And this is why my parents immigrated to the US in the 1990s and I remain grateful for that.

[BugsJustFindMe]

Defamation is illegal in India, so a defamation platform would be problematic.