Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Principal, 9 lecturers of Amrita booked for abetting suicide 

According to police, they also tampered with evidence

29/10/2019 , Special Correspondent, Bengaluru

The principal and nine lecturers of Amrita School of Engineering, where a student died last week, have been booked for abetting suicide and destroying evidence.

The Parappana Agrahara police have issued notice to them to appear for questioning in connection with the suicide of the final-year engineering student on the college premises. Students alleged that harassment by the management had led to the student, G.N.N.K. Sri Harsha, ending his life.

Principal Dhanaraj Swamy and Rakesh S.G., Bhaskar B., Ravi Kumar, Ramesh T.K., Nipun Kumar, Amudha, Venkatesh B., Nagaraja S.R. and Murty N.S., lecturers of various departments, have been charged with abetment to suicide and destruction of evidence.

According to the police, the accused misguided the father of the deceased and did not allow him on the college premises when he visited around the time his son died.

The accused had even cleared blood stains from the spot and washed them off with chemicals, while also tampering with CCTV camera footage, the police said.

G. Vijaya Bhaskar, Harsha’s father, has accused the principal and staff members of torturing his son.

Harsha, a student of Electronics and Communication, jumped off the seventh floor of the college building days after a disciplinary committee of the college reportedly expelled him for protesting over water shortage in the hostel.

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