Student?s death sparks protests

[Ronan Kelly]

Student?s death sparks protests



Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The death of a first year student of Vikas residential junior college on Friday at B.N. Reddy Nagar in Vanasthalipuram led to tension with activists of student organisations and political parties demanding action against the college management.

The college authorities maintained that Manoj, 16, had been suffering from fever for past four days and died in the early hours of Friday after being rushed to a corporate hospital. However, the police registered a case of suspicious death under Section 174 of Criminal Procedure Code following a complaint by student?s parents.

The student from Devarakonda of Nalgonda district was suffering from mild fever and suddenly developed complications on the night of Thursday. Doctors of a local hospital advised the college authorities to shift him to a corporate hospital suspecting that he had contacted dengue fever.

Furniture damaged


Manoj was shifted to Yashoda hospital but was declared brought dead by the doctors. As news about the student?s death spread, members of student organisations and local political party workers assembled at the college and damaged furniture prompting police to use mild force to disperse them. They called off their agitation after police promised to take action against the college management.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Student?s death sparks protests

College attacked after student's death
TNN 17 October 2009, 04:23am IST


HYDERABAD: Alleging that the college management is responsible for the death of an Intermediate student, students staged a dharna in front of Vikas
Junior College at BN Reddy Nagar and damaged its furniture on Friday.

College authorities informed the parents of Intermediate student S Manoj Kumar, 15, at about 3 am that he fell ill and was admitted to Yashoda Hospital, Malakpet. Manoj?s father, Chandrasekhar, is a truck driver and the family lives at Devarakonda.

Chandrasekhar along with his wife Chandrakala reached Yashoda Hospital at 6 am but by that time Manoj died and the body had already been shifted to Osmania General Hospital.

Manoj?s parents, shocked by the development, asked the college staff how could they shift the body to mortuary without informing them. Meanwhile, student unions came to know about the incident. Alleging that the college administration was responsible for Manoj?s death, union activists, along with the family members of Manoj and Vikas College students staged a protest on the college premises.

Some activists damaged the furniture at the college office and police resorted to mild lathicharge to disperse the mob.

The college staff told the police that at about 1 am, Manoj had been shifted to Nitya Hospital in BN Reddy Nagar after his roommate noticed him vomiting in the bed.

?After examining Manoj, the medical staff at Nitya Hospital advised the college staff to shift the boy to a better hospital. Manoj was then shifted to Yashoda Hospital in Malakpet where he was declared brought dead,? Vanasthalipuram inspector Madhu Mohan said.

The college staff then took the body to OGH mortuary and informed the police. ?According to students, Manoj had been sick since last five days. However, only after the postmortem the cause of death will be known,? the inspector said.
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