Thrissur: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) inquiring into the suicide of Jishnu Pranoy, a student of Nehru College Pampady, issued lookout notices against accused in the case who allegedly conspired to trap him on false charges of copying during examination and later assaulted him brutally. District rural police chief N. Vijayakumar said that all the ports and airports in the country will be alerted to prevent the accused from fleeing to any other country as a part of issuing the lookout notice.
Meanwhile, the SIT led by Irinjalakuda ASP Kiran Narayanan has been expanded with the inclusion of Chalakkudy deputy superintendent of police Shahul Hameed and Palakkad Crime Branch deputy superintendent of police M.J. Sojan. This move by the home department comes in the wake of Jishnu’s relatives raising apprehensions over the sincerity of SIT members except Ms Kiran in the ongoing investigation.
“As chairman and managing trustee of the college P. Krishnakumar had obtained an interim bail for five days from High Court on Thursday, lookout notice cannot be issued against him at present,” Mr Vijayakumar said. Meanwhile, SIT members on Friday seized the CCTV hard disks from the college which included the one which records the footage from the room of vice-principal K.N. Sakthivel, where Jishnu was brutally assaulted by college authorities as per the police report submitted by SIT at Wadakkanchery Magistrate Court.
The SIT members had earlier said that the CCTV footages of January 6, the day Jishnu was allegedly beaten up by V-P of the college along with examination invigilator C.P. Praveen and exam cell coordinator Vivin and of January 5 and 7 were dubiously missing from the hard disks. SIT members said that the forensic and IT experts would try their best to retrieve the allegedly deleted files from the disk. Besides that, the verification of the hard disks would help in confirming any kind of tampering on the disks by college authorities, they added.
Relatives against Government Pleader
Uncle of Jishnu K.K. Sreejith on Friday came down heavily on the government pleader for not bringing to the notice of HC certain facts while P. Krishnadas obtained interim bail for five days. He had cited in his anticipatory bail plea that he needed to attend the meeting summoned by district collectors over the reopening of Nehru College and Jawaharlal College at Lakkidi in Palakkad. “The meeting was held on Wednesday and it was decided that the colleges will be reopened. However, Krishnadas in his bail application on Thursday mentioned about this meeting and the government pleader failed to point it out to the court,” Mr Sreejith noted.
College Reopened
Over 3,000 students of both Nehru College of Engineering and Pharmacy held a joint protest on the campus at Pampady and held a meeting to commemorate Jishnu on Friday morning before they entered classes after reopening of the college. They also nominated 15 students to form the college union in the meeting held at the basketball court of the Nehru College. Girl students, who hitherto did not actively takepart in the protest against the college, came in large numbers for the meeting. The students who spoke at the meeting said that their fight was against the highhandedness of the management and to bring justice to Vishnu’s family.
