Kattachira suicide case: Crime Branch to probe suicide bid by student

ALAPPUZHA: The Crime Branch police will investigate the suicide attempt made by a student of Sri Vellappally Natesan College of Engineering, Kattachira near Mavelikkara, and the SFI attack on the college. Alappuzha special branch DySP K.H. Muhammed Kabeer Rawther said that they had handed over a report to the Ernakulam range IG about the suicide attempt, the SFI attack on the college and the police action.

The college management and the BJP have condemned the attack saying that it was politically motivated. BJP state general secretary A.N. Radhakrishnan alleged that the attack showed the CPM enmity towards the BDJS. The SNDP yogam organised a protest meet in front of the college on Tuesday against the violence. Though the police have registered cases against 300 SFI workers, none has been arrested. Arsh Raj, 20, second-year B Tech mechanical engineering student had tried to commit suicide after he was allegedly scolded by the principal.