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From: azad_gurinder <azad_gurinder@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Subject: [PMARC] Suicide Case of Dalit Student Pushpanjali Poorty
To: Dalits Media Watch <PMARC@dgroups.org>
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From: azad_gurinder <azad_gurinder@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Subject: [PMARC] Suicide Case of Dalit Student Pushpanjali Poorty
To: Dalits Media Watch <PMARC@dgroups.org>
Dear friends,
On the very day i.e. 3 March, 2010 when Bal Mukund Bharti, a final years student of MBBS at AIIMS committed suicide being victim of casteism in educational institutions, one another dalit girl student named Pushpanjali Poorty, originally from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand also committed suicide in Bangalore. The news covered by DNA and the Hindu newspapers is given below.
Case against college management in suicide case Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: The Vidyaranyapura police have registered a case against Sambhram College management in connection with the suicide of an MBA student Pushpanjali at the hostel on January 30.
On Monday Rajagopal, convener of the Dalit Students' Forum, lodged a complaint accusing college principal P. Shivananda and other members of college administration, of abetting the 24-year-old Jharkhand native's suicide.
He said the student, who was admitted six months ago, was later told she was not eligible to write the first semester examination as she did not have sufficient marks in her graduate course.
Percentage
This, Mr. Rajagopal, was wrong as Ms. Pushpanjali had scored 54 per cent as against the qualifying percentage of 50. The college had failed to inform the university about the marks, driving the student to suicide.
The Vidyaranyapura has registered a case under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code for abetment of suicide.
(http://www.hinduonnet.com/2010/02/03/stories/2010020352120300.htm)
College accused of abetting suicide
The police on Tuesday registered a case of abetment of suicide against the Sambharama Academy of Management Institute here following the January 30 death of a student.
The MBA student, Pushpanjali Poorty (24), was found hanging at her apartment near the college in Chikkabettahalli, MS Palya. According to a complaint lodged by a dalits students' organisation, the institute kept delaying the refund of the fees she had paid even after the Visvesvaraiah Technological University (VTU), to which the college was affiliated, cancelled her admission.
The VTU cancelled Poorty's admission, citing low marks in the qualifying examination. After the cancellation of her admission, she wanted a refund of her fees and wished to return to her native place, Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.
Following her suicide, the student and dalits' organisations staged a protest in front of the college. The Dalit Students' Federation (DSF) demanded the arrest of college principal P Shivananda and refund of the fees, Rs3.5 lakh, to Poorty's parents.
"We have filed an abetment case based on a complaint filed by the students' organisation. We will investigate the case and take appropriate action against the college authorities," inspector KM Subramanya of Vidyaranyapura police station said.
Police said they had charged two sections of the IPC 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), against the college. The case was filed on a complaint by Raj Gopal, a DSF worker.
"The management did not repay the amount till January 30, the day on which she was to return her to native place. She was informed of the cancellation of her admission only two days before her first semester examination. She was preparing for the exam till that day. She became depressed after receiving the information," Gopal said.
(http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_college-accused-of-abetting-suicide_1342740)
Regards
Gurinder Singh Azad
For Insight Foundation
On the very day i.e. 3 March, 2010 when Bal Mukund Bharti, a final years student of MBBS at AIIMS committed suicide being victim of casteism in educational institutions, one another dalit girl student named Pushpanjali Poorty, originally from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand also committed suicide in Bangalore. The news covered by DNA and the Hindu newspapers is given below.
Case against college management in suicide case Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: The Vidyaranyapura police have registered a case against Sambhram College management in connection with the suicide of an MBA student Pushpanjali at the hostel on January 30.
On Monday Rajagopal, convener of the Dalit Students' Forum, lodged a complaint accusing college principal P. Shivananda and other members of college administration, of abetting the 24-year-old Jharkhand native's suicide.
He said the student, who was admitted six months ago, was later told she was not eligible to write the first semester examination as she did not have sufficient marks in her graduate course.
Percentage
This, Mr. Rajagopal, was wrong as Ms. Pushpanjali had scored 54 per cent as against the qualifying percentage of 50. The college had failed to inform the university about the marks, driving the student to suicide.
The Vidyaranyapura has registered a case under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code for abetment of suicide.
(http://www.hinduonnet.com/2010/02/03/stories/2010020352120300.htm)
College accused of abetting suicide
The police on Tuesday registered a case of abetment of suicide against the Sambharama Academy of Management Institute here following the January 30 death of a student.
The MBA student, Pushpanjali Poorty (24), was found hanging at her apartment near the college in Chikkabettahalli, MS Palya. According to a complaint lodged by a dalits students' organisation, the institute kept delaying the refund of the fees she had paid even after the Visvesvaraiah Technological University (VTU), to which the college was affiliated, cancelled her admission.
The VTU cancelled Poorty's admission, citing low marks in the qualifying examination. After the cancellation of her admission, she wanted a refund of her fees and wished to return to her native place, Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.
Following her suicide, the student and dalits' organisations staged a protest in front of the college. The Dalit Students' Federation (DSF) demanded the arrest of college principal P Shivananda and refund of the fees, Rs3.5 lakh, to Poorty's parents.
"We have filed an abetment case based on a complaint filed by the students' organisation. We will investigate the case and take appropriate action against the college authorities," inspector KM Subramanya of Vidyaranyapura police station said.
Police said they had charged two sections of the IPC 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), against the college. The case was filed on a complaint by Raj Gopal, a DSF worker.
"The management did not repay the amount till January 30, the day on which she was to return her to native place. She was informed of the cancellation of her admission only two days before her first semester examination. She was preparing for the exam till that day. She became depressed after receiving the information," Gopal said.
(http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_college-accused-of-abetting-suicide_1342740)
Regards
Gurinder Singh Azad
For Insight Foundation
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