Death
of an engineering student from Kerala at Namakkal, near Salem in Tamil
Nadu, has led to police arresting seven senior students from Kerala, and
slapping murder charges against them.
Family
members and hundreds of grieving relatives and friends attended the
funeral of Deepak at his hometown Thaliparamba on Friday.
Deepak,
20, was reportedly killed when senior students in a car hit from behind
the bike on which he was pillion riding with a friend. The incident is
reportedly a result of hazing at the Gnanamani engineering college where
Deepak was a fresher.
Police
have registered a case against seven senior students identified as
David Cherian, Jitin John, Sarath, Bijo and Aswanth, all age 20, and
21-year-olds Danish John and Mithun with charges of conspiracy and
murder. The parents of the accused students were present when they were
taken by police to be produced in the Rasipuram magistrate court in
Tamil Nadu.
Students
in the Gnanamani college had staged a protest immediately after
Deepak’s death, alleging that the college authorities were trying to
play down the incident.
The
incident has raised concern among parents in Kerala about their
children studying in different colleges in other states, where hazing is
rampant.
Deepak’s
father Padmanabhan collapsed on seeing his son’s body and had to be
admitted to a hospital. Deepak is the only son of Padmanabhan and
Sheela. The couple has a daughter, too.
Local
media reports indicate that private college managements in some states
are offering commissions to students and former students to rope in
fresh students to the colleges, and pay as much as Rs25,000 (about N1m)
per student brought to the college for studies.
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