Kallakurichi Student Death: Child Rights Panel To Conduct Probe On July 27

Kallakurichi Student Death: The NCPCR chairman is expected to visit the school and the hostel premises at Kallakurichi where the student died on July 13.

NCPCR Chairman Priyang Kanoongo

Chennai: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is set to conduct an investigation into the death of a Class 12 student at a private residential school in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichil on July 27. The NCPCR chairman is also expected to visit the school and the hostel premises at Kallakurichi from where the student died on July 13.

NCPCR Chairman Priyang Kanoongo, in a tweet, said that he would visit Kallakurichi to "inquire into the suspicious death of a girl child in a residential building".

After the Madras High Court had made a scathing attack on the failure of police to contain the violence that erupted at Kallakurichi on Sunday, a Special Investigation Team led by DIG, Salem, Praveen Kumar Abhinapu was set up to probe the riots and violence.

The CB-CID has also commenced probe on the circumstances that had led to the suicide of the girl student.

 On Wednesday, the CB-CID posted a notice on the house of the deceased girl in Cuddalore district asking the family members to collect her body since the second autopsy is over. The first autopsy revealed that the girl "died of hemorrhage and shock due to multiple injuries". However, the actual reason for her death is unknown. 

While the school authorities alleged that she died by suicide, the family members alleged foul play in the death. After the kin started to stage a protest demanding justice for the girl, an arson broke out in Kallakurichi. Following this, the case was transferred to CB-CID for probe.    

Kallakurichi Collector PN Sridhar was also transferred and was replaced by Sravan Kumar Jatavath.

(With IANS inputs)