Student commits suicide in classroom
Parents allege harassment from teachers and school management
Mandya, July 19: A 10th standard girl student committed suicide by hanging herself in the classroom during school hours at Chaitanya Vidyaniketan High School at Kodimaranahalli in KR Pete taluk on Thursday.
The student is identified as Sangeeta (14). During lunch hour, the girl committed suicide in the classroom. Her parents alleged that she committed suicide because of the harassment from the management and the teachers.
The parents said that as their daughter got less marks in 9th standard, the teachers and the management have been forcing her to take transfer certificate and join other school. Apart from this, a teacher was misbehaving with her, they said.
Upon knowing the incident, people from surrounding villages rushed to the school and protested against the teachers and the management. They said that the school has been taking hefty donation and when asked, they were denying any information. The teachers were not teaching the students. Girl students were being harassed in the school, they alleged.
BEO Betta Nayak, circle inspector HB Venkateshaiah, Kikkeri PSI R Siddaraju, ZP former vice president KS Prabhakar and others consoled the mother of the girl and assured of getting justice to her.
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
