Chennai: Apprehending arrest in connection with a case relating to the death of three girl students, whose bodies were found in a well in Villupuram district, one of the trustees of M/s Educational and Social Service Trust, running the SVS Medical College of Yoga and Naturopathy, has approached the Madras high court, seeking anticipatory bail. Justice K. Kalyanasundaram before whom the petition filed by 55-year-old Subramanian came up for hearing ordered notice to CB-CID and posted to February 3 further hearing of the case.
According to the petitioner, on January 21, he came to know that three second year girl students of the college committed suicide by jumping into the well, which was situated 2 km away from the college and when the bodies of the deceased recovered from the well, it was found that their hands were tied with thuppata.
There was no dispute between the management and the deceased college girls in the past. Neither he nor his wife and the management were in any way connected to the pathetic occurrence. The allegation of the prosecution that the deceased committed on account of charging excess fee, non-issuance of receipts was false and frivolous. The parents of the deceased have denied the handwriting of the alleged suicide note which was the pivot of the investigation.
The cause of deaths of the students was suspicious as their hands were tied together, he added.
He alleged that there was a long drawn enmity between Sakthivel, inspector of police, Chinna Salem police station who was the investigating officer of the crime, and the petitioner and his wife with regard to the land in which the college was situated as he has been openly threatening them to part with the land to his relative Muthusamy. Hence serious objection was raised for change of investigation of the crime.
He underwent kidney transplantation at a private hospital here recently and till today he was an inpatient taking treatment in the hospital. His wife all along was attending to his needs in the hospital. Because of the enmity with the inspector of police, she surrendered before a magistrate in Tambaram on January 25, apprehending arrest and consequential harassment and torture at the hands of the inspector of police. She was remanded in judicial custody.
