Overview
- Relatives met the Kannur City Police Commissioner seeking swift arrests of two faculty members named in a case for abetment of suicide under the SC/ST Act.
- Police also opened cyber cases over alleged loan-app threats and arrested three people linked to the lenders in Uttar Pradesh.
- The college management denied caste harassment, said the issue stemmed from a personal loan, and said it gave CCTV footage and records to investigators.
- The student had been called to the principal’s office over loan-app threats to a teacher, left the room, and was later found after a fall that proved fatal.
- The two accused faculty have filed anticipatory bail petitions in a district court as police continue to take statements and examine digital evidence.