4 professors arrested on charges of abetting girl student’s suicide in Puducherry college

PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry police on Wednesday arrested four professors of a private engineering college on charges of abetting the suicide of a first-year girl student.
The police arrested Ernest Paul, Bhavani, Geetha and Priyadarshini following an inquiry by a revenue official over the alleged suicide of I Vinodhini, a first-year electrical and electronic engineering student of Sri Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology.Vinodhini allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the terrace of the five-storey college building on Monday.
The girl's uncle, M A Akbar, said the professors assaulted her in front of other students on Friday for faring poorly in studies. He said the faculty members denied permission to her to enter the classroom on Monday morning. This drove her to take the extreme step, he alleged.
Earlier, the girl's relatives refused to sign the documents for conducting the postmortem and demanded immediate arrest of the faculty members who allegedly harassed her. Only when the police arrested the professors on Wednesday evening did the girl's father, Ilango, sign the documents.
Another professor, Sethupathy, who was also booked, was not arrested after preliminary inquiries revealed that he was not involved in the crime.
On Wednesday morning, relatives and representatives of students' federation and parents' forums gathered in front of the Raj Nivas demanding the arrest of the professors.