TN tragedy: 'This is nothing but murder'

Chennai | Saturday | 14th July, 2018

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We don’t know whether any faculty member was supervising the drill,’’ said Logeshwari’s father A Nallagounder, a 63-year-old farmer of Nathegounden Pudur.Nallagounder told reporters that this was nothing but murder . “When my daughter refused to jump, she should not have been forced to jump . It was through parents of other students that they got to know about it.“Only after she was taken to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital we got to know about the fall,” her elder brother N Selvakumar said. Logeswari is the first graduate student from the family.The family rushed to the hospital where doctors declared Logeswari brought dead.“We have lodged a complaint against the trainer and the college management,” Selvakumar said “Safety of students on the campus is responsibility of the institution. COIMBATORE: Family members of N Logeshwari, who died on Thursday after being made to jump from the second floor of her college building during a disaster management drill , have blamed the college authorities, saying there was no intimation to parents about the drill.The grief-stricken parents said the college did not inform them about the accident..