Thrissur: Nehru College chairman P. Krishnadas had assisted Vice-Principal K. N. Sakthivel in going into hiding and pursuing the legal issues, police sources said. Mr Sakthivel, who was arrested from Coimbatore by the special investigation team on Sunday, had admitted this to the police during interrogation. Mr Sakthivel also told the police that he had met Mr Krishnadas at a place in Palakkad while the former was in hiding, sources said. Based on this information, the investigation team plans to summon Mr Krishnadas, the first accused in the Jishnu suicide case, and Mr Sanjith K. Viswanath, PRO of Nehru College, the second accused, for further questioning.
However, Mr Sakthivel stuck to his earlier stand that Jishnu had copied during the examination and contradicted the statement of Principal S. Varadarajan that Mr Sakthivil along with exam invigilator C.P. Praveen had taken Jishnu from the principal’s room to the board room (‘torture cell’) after Jishnu was trapped over false charges of copying. “Sakthivel did not co-operate fully with the interrogation by the SIT at Thrissu police club on Sunday night. He said that Krishnadas had given him legal aid. But, he refused to accept that Jishnu was physically and mentally assaulted by the college authorities,” Rural SP N. Vijayakumar told DC.
