College head surrenders in TN girls’ suicide issue

Days after three girl students allegedly committed suicide, the head of their college on Monday surrendered in a court in the state capital and two others, including its principal, were arrested in connection with the case.

Vasuki Subramanian, head of the Kallakurichi-based naturopathy and yoga college, surrendered before a court here and was remanded to judicial custody, the police said.

“After questioning, we have arrested Kalanidhi (college principal) and Suvagur Varma, (administrator and son of Vasuki Subramanian) and they were produced before a court which remanded them to judicial custody,” a senior police official said told PTI.

He said the probe was still on and they were on the lookout for some more persons in connection with the case.

The father of one of the girls, Tamilarasan, moved a petition on Monday in the Madras high court, seeking a CB-CID inquiry and post-mortem in a state-run hospital in Chennai.

He had also requested that a doctor of his choice be present during autopsy.

Meanwhile, the registrar of the TN Dr MGR Medical University, Dr P. Arumugam, told PTI: “We have not given affiliation to the BNYS and BHMS courses of the Kallakurichi-based college for 2015-16 till date.”

On Saturday, three second-year girl students committed suicide alleging exorbitant fees and harassment by their college. The triple suicide snowballed into a major issue with political parties demanding tough action. The college was sealed on Sunday.

Expressing suspicion on the manner of their deaths, the girls’ parents had filed complaints claiming that their daughters were murdered.