Protest over student’s suicide

Coimbatore | Wednesday | 18th July, 2018

Summary:

more-inTension prevailed at Government Polytechnic College near Peelamedu here on Tuesday when students staged a mass protest over the suicide of a student. Traffic on Avinashi Road was disrupted for nearly 30 minutes as the students took the protest to the road. The police said that Students Federation of India (SFI) allegedly triggered the protest on Tuesday. Sanjai Prasad (18), a second year diploma student of the institution, committed suicide in his house in Tirupur on Monday. According to police, a teacher of the college had allegedly found Prasad and a few other students using abusive words on the campus last week..