Protestors hit the streets in Kallakurichi over the suicide of a girl belonging to a private school vandalizing the school’s properties.
In a video that is now viral on social meida, protestors can be seen speeding towards the school in bikes. A frenzy mob pelted stones and vandalized the classrooms including the principal’s cabin, and set the school buses parked on the campus on fire. Even police vehicles were set on fire by the violent mob and fire engines which had come to the spot were attacked.
The protest scenes bear an uncanny resemblance to the way Sterlite protests rocked the city of Thoothukudi.
✅Past 2 months 7 death occurred in same school called ECR International School Kaniyamoor, #India . This case became more #Breaking after #Srimathi death. Her mother says that the death was a mysterious death .Now Protest Infront of school.
#justiceforsrimathi ⚖️ pic.twitter.com/YXIrFZ8jTc— Abdul Ahad (@OneAahad) July 17, 2022
This is just the beginning🔥#justiceforsrimathi #ஶ்ரீமதிக்கு_நீதி_வேண்டும்#TodaySrimathiWhoisTmrw
— 🇨 🇭 🇮 🇾 🇦 🇦 🇳 ᵏᵃⁿⁱ (@Kanicvf07) July 17, 2022
The protest comes in light of the suicide of a 17-year-old girl named Srimathi who was studying at the ECR International School located in Kaniyamoor in Kallakurichi district. Srimathi is suspected to have committed suicide by jumping by jumping down from the school’s hostel floor on Tuesday (July 12).
According to reports, the school principal had informed Srimathi’s parents via phone that their daughter had fallen from the floor. Half an hour later, the parents were informed that the girl was dead.
It is said that the Srimathi was not taken to hospital in an ambulance, and the school administration took the body to Kallakurichi Government Medical College Hospital without informing the Police and kept it in the mortuary for autopsy.
Shocked by her death, her parents, relatives and people belonging to her village Periyanasalur, off Veppur in Cuddalore district have been staging non-stop protest seeking justice.
Reportedly, the girl had left a suicide note in which she had complained about harassment from her teachers.
Apparently, the teachers had yelled at her in front of her classmates and friends. She had also asked the school management to return the fee paid to her parents.
Srimathi’s mother had released a video alleging foul play in her daughter’s death. She has asked for a CB-CID probe into the matter.
Meanwhile, curfew has been imposed in Kallakurichi. CM Stalin had released a statement promising action against the perpetrators and asking the protestors to maintain public peace.
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