Coimbatore: A man, suspected to have helped procure fake certificates for the trainer who prodded a student to jump off the second floor of her college building during a disaster management drill, was taken into custody, even as the official report was submitted.
Ashok, who helped R Arumugam get a fake certificate of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), was picked up for questioning, police said. Meanwhile, Regional Joint Director, Collegiate Education, S Kala on Saturday submitted a report to District Collector T N Hariharan on the incident, official sources said. The report would be forwarded to the chief secretary, as Chief Minister K Palaniswami has sought a detailed inquiry into the incident from the education and police departments.
The Bharathiar University has also sought an explanation from the Kovai Kalaimagal College of Arts and Science, which comes under its purview, sources said. They said preliminary inquiry revealed that Arumugam, a native of Tirunelveli, has trained over 1,200 students of various colleges in the last six years and collected Rs 50 from each of them. Agencies