Triple suicide: Madras HC issues notice to Tamil Nadu govt

The Madras High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to Tamil Nadu government on a petition seeking that students of a private college at Villupuram, where three girls committed suicide over alleged exorbitant fee demands, be allowed to continue their studies in a government college.

The HC issued notice to Special Government Pleader V Jayaprakashnarayan on a petition by S Ravi Kumar, a student of SVS Medical College of Yoga and Naturopathy, to continue their studies in the Government College of Naturopathy and Yoga Science here.

Kumar submitted that the students had lost the opportunity to attend the internals and practical exams as the college was sealed by authorities after the girls’ suicide last month.

Since Tamil Nadu Dr Medical University, the affiliating university, was taking steps to finalise the exam schedule, a proper scheme to conduct the internals and practicals has to be assured. Unless this was done, as also for continuing the remainder of their studies, his future, as well as that of the other students would be ruined, he said. 

Hence he prayed for a direction to government to arrange for holding of these exams and to enable them continue their studies either by taking over the college or by special orders permitting them to continue their education in the Government College of Naturopathy and Yoga Science here.