Overview
- College officials said they found no caste discrimination and attributed the death to a mobile loan taken in the student’s name, adding they handed CCTV footage, letters to his father, and exam papers to investigators.
- Police have registered abetment of suicide and invoked the SC/ST Act, and a Special Investigation Team with cyber experts is examining both caste-abuse allegations and loan-app harassment.
- NDTV-reported CCTV from the principal’s office shows staff speaking to a loan-recovery agent about contacts linked to the debt and the student leaving the room in tears minutes before his fall.
- Kerala police arrested three alleged operators of the ‘Instant Funds’ loan app in Noida after a teacher’s complaint about relentless calls, and Rediff reported the trio were remanded to judicial custody.
- The student died after a fifth-floor fall on April 10 at Kannur Dental College, student protests pushed the management to expel Dr M K Ram, and two faculty named in the FIR have turned to court for anticipatory bail.