HC dismisses PIL seeking to constitute SIT to probe suicides

Madras High Court today disposed aPIL by S Sivaraman, an advocate seeking a direction to Home and Health Secretary to constitute a Special Investigation Team to probe the recognition and affiliation granted to SVS Naturopathy, Homeopathy and Yoga Medical College, Villupuram, where three girls committed suicide.
Disposing the petition, the First Bench Comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M M Sunderesh said
The authorities concerned may look into the representation in respect to the same within a reasonable period of time.
Sivaraman, submitted that the Government had granted recognition for institution in 2008 without following the rules and regulations. The college has been running without proper infrastructure, he submitted.

He said the authorities had failed to do their duties and acted for the college after getting some "extraneous" consideration.
Stating that Chief Minister had issued a statement that the case regarding the death of three students was entrusted to CBCID and to protect the interest students in the institution would be transferred to Government college after getting necessary approval from concernd authorities, he said the statement also revealed lack of procedures were followed while granting approval and affiliation to the college.
Due to the unfortunate incident of suicide of three students, the petitioner filed the PIL seeking constitution of Special Investigation Team to go into the issue of illegal recognition and affiliation granted to it by the authorities and to take action for dereliction of duties.

The authorities concerned may look into the matter within a reasonable period of time, the judges said.