College head surrenders in TN girls' suicide issue

Days after three girl students allegedly committed suicide, the head of their college today surrendered in a court in the state capital and was arrested along with two others, including its principal.
Vasuki Subramanian, head of the Kallakurichi-based naturopahty 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 told PTI.
He said the probe was still on and they were on the look out for some more persons in connection with the case.

The father of one of the girls, Tamilarasan, moved a petition today 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 affilation 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 yesterday.
Expressing suspicion on the manner of their deaths, the girls' parents had filed complaints claiming that their daughters were murdered.
In the Madras High Court, meanwhile, Justice M M Sunderesh before whom Tamilarasan's, (Monisha's father) petition came up for hearing today, directed the registry to post it before another court dealing with petitions of a similar nature.
DMDK chief and leader of Opposition, Vijayakanth, demanded a CBI inquriy into the matter.
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Condoling the deaths of the three girls, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said she has ordered police to carry out intensive investigation and take appropriate action over their deaths.

She also ordered a solatium of Rs one lakh to the families of each one of the three victims.
CPI(M) State Secretary G Ramakrishnan said the lives of the girls could have been saved had appropriate action been taken before hand.
"They have sealed the college now. Had this been done before, the girls would have been saved," he told reporters.
Puthiya Tamilagam chief Krishnasamy said the death of the girls should be thoroughly probed from all angles.