After senior police officials held hour-long negotiations with them, the relatives agreed to receive the body, which was then taken to their native place Perambalur.
Abinath’s relatives said they would not receive the body till the college officials were charge-sheeted. Students and relatives also staged a protest at the Government Hospital at Chromepet. We also want an elected student body to take care of the welfare of the students,” said a student. And we want the college to give it in writing. “We want the management to remove Balu from his post. The students said that they would not give up the agitation until all their demands were met. We suspect that he was pushed into committing suicide,” said the victim’s father, Thangaraj. Recently, he had told me that the warden was often harsh with him and that his identity card was being confiscated for flimsy reasons. We reject the college management’s version of the events. “My son is not someone who will commit suicide because he couldn’t study medicine. Meanwhile, the victim’s father said Abinath was pushed over the edge by college authorities. We think he committed suicide because of the way he was treated by the hostel warden,” said a student who participated in the protest. “Abinath didn’t commit suicide because he had arrears. The students demanded the arrest of the college’s CEO Saiprakash Leo Muthu and campus director Balu, who has been accused previously of manhandling and treating the students harshly. Nagar bus terminus on Saturday morning due to the protest.
Arrest CEO, campus director: Sairam students : (News : The Hindu)Ī small group of students, sporting handkerchiefs over their faces, protested against the management of Sri Sairam Engineering College and demanded justice in the case of the suicide of first-year student, T.