20220717 TN school girl suicide: Protesters set school buses, police vehicles on fire; 20 cops injured
India Jul 17 2022 “Automobile & Railway”
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TN school girl suicide: Protesters set school buses, police vehicles on fire; 20 cops injured
Updated: 2022-07-17
KALLAKURICHI: Violence broke out on Sunday in Kallakurichi district as protesters forcibly entered the school premises and set the school buses and police vehicles on fire demanding justice over the death of a girl student.
“The agitators, pushing down barricades put up by the police, stormed the premises of a school at nearby Chinnasalem and set buses parked inside the institution’s premises on fire,” said police.
To control the violence, Kallakurichi district police used mild force. The protesters started pelted stones at police personnel. More than 20 cops, including DIG M Pandian, have sustained injuries in the incident.
Chief minister M K Stalin has directed the home secretary and DGP to visit the spot.
A class XII girl student was found dead in the hostel of a residential school in Kallakurichi district on Wednesday.
The school management is believed to have shifted the girl’s body to the Kallakurichi Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem examination and informed the police.
Meanwhile, parents and relatives of the girl blocked roads, alleging foul play in her death. They refused to receive her body.
A section of students and locals blocked the Chinna Salem- Kallakurichi Road on Sunday and tried to proceed towards the private school at Kaniyamoor. Police personnel, however, intercepted the protesters, who began to pelt them with stones and stormed into the school.
Meanwhile the girl’s parents requested the protesters not to indulge in violence. DGP C Sylendra Babu has warned the students and locals of stern action if they indulged in violence.
Web Source: The Times of India