The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered a fresh autopsy on one of the girls who had allegedly committed suicide in Villupuram in Tamil Nadu.
The High Court gave the go-ahead for fresh autopsy as it agreed to a plea by the parents of one of the girls, Monisha, seeking a fresh autopsy to be conducted in Chennai.
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.
Allowing the petition, Justice R. Subbiah directed that a doctor of the petitioner’s choice shall be included in the team conducting the postmortem examination.
When the petition came up for hearing, petitioner’s counsel Sankara Subbu contended that the autopsy has been conducted without the consent of the girl’s parents. He also sought the court to direct the authorities to conduct the examination in any government hospital in Chennai, claiming that the petitioner had lost faith in the district administration.
Nineteen-year-old Monisha and two other students had allegedly committed suicide near their college in Villupuram over the weekend. In an alleged suicide note, the girls blamed their college of extortion and harassment.
The alleged suicide note left behind by students Priyanka, Saranya and Monisha accuses the SVS college management of charging excess fees and torture.
The head of their college on Monday surrendered in a court in Chennai and was arrested along with two others, including its principal, days after the girls committed suicide.
Vasuki Subramanian, head of the Kallakurichi-based naturopathy and yoga college, surrendered before a court here and was remanded to judicial custody, police said. “After questioning, we have arrested Kalanidhi (college principal) and Suvagur Varma, (adminstrator and son of Vasuki Subramanian) and they were produced before a court which remanded them to judicial custody,” a senior police official said. He said the probe was still on and they were on the look out for some more persons in connection with the case.
