Villupuram college girls' tragedy: Student's father seeks probe, compensation

Chennai: The state government has informed the Madras high court that post-mortem on the bodies of three girl students, who were found dead in a well on the premises of SVS Naturopathy and Yoga Science Medical College in Villupuram district, had been completed on Monday morning.

Additional advocate-general P.H. Arvindh Pandian made this submission when a petition by M.K. Tamilarasan, father of one of the deceased girls, Monisha, seeking re-postmortem by a team of doctors of general hospital here, came up for hearing before Justice M.M. Sundresh.

Posting the matter before the court dealing with cases relating to Sec. 482 (Inherent power of high court)  Cr.P.C on January 27, the judge also recorded Arvindh Pandian’s assurance  that the body would be preserved till then.
Suspecting foul play in the death of the three girls, the petitioner sought a direction to transfer investigation from local police to CB-CID.

He also sought a direction to the state government and the college to pay '25 lakh as interim compensation for the death of his daughter.

R. Sankarasubbu, petitioner’s counsel,  submitted the three girl students were done to death because they had conducted several agitations demanding basic facilities in the college.

Thirty three students were allotted one room, where there was only one toilet.

The government now said the college was not recognised. But there were material to show that the college was a recognised one.  

Arvindh Pandian submitted the petition was not maintainable since it will not fall under section 482 Cr.P.C.

Post-mortem had been conducted by experts and specialised doctors and it had been completed on all the three bodies at 8 a.m. on Monday.

The autopsy was also video-graphed. The parents of two deceased have taken the bodies.

The college correspondent had surrendered before a court at Tambaram Monday. Her son was arrested at Villupuram.

Another person was admitted to a hospital. A special team has been formed to nab another correspondent, he said.

In his petition, Tamilarasan contended that her daughter and two other students Priyanka and Saranya were conducting several protests demanding the college management to provide basic facilities.

While so, after Pongal holidays, his daughter went to college on January 22.
Thereafter, there was no communication from her.

Tension, anger in Villupuram

Tension and anxiety continue in Villupuram following the death of three medical college students who allegedly committed suicide on the campus of a private college here on Saturday .

Students of the college gathered in front of the hospital demanding action against the college administration and government officials who refused to take action against the institution even after receiving  many complaints.

Meanwhile,  the demand by the parents of one of the girl students that postmortem should be done only in Chennai created tension.

Police offices were able to convince the families and the autopsy was done yesterday itself on the bodies of the two girls Saranya and Priyanka. Even though the autopsy was done here, the body of Monisha is kept in Mundiyampakkam govt medical college hospital as the parents had moved  the Madras high court.  The bodies of Priyanka and Saranya were handed over to the parents. The demand by Monisha’s parents and students protest gave a tough time for police officials.

SFI demo: Members of Students Federation of India (SFI) staged a demonstration in front of the district Collectorate demanding action against the culprits.

“Students even complained to us many times about lack of facilities in the college. Whenever we met the chairman or other officials on this issue their approach was arrogant which made us move the court,” said A. Arivazgagan, district secretary SFI. Along with the college management, the government and the university are all equally responsible for this, he added.