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Friday, Jul 23, 2004

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Cops may go slow inSoujanya case

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM, JULY 22. The police seem to have decided to go slow into the probe on the circumstances leading to the attempted suicide by the B.Sc. (nursing) student, G. Soujanya.

Even after four days, no case has been booked against the management of the Esskay College of Nursing. Meanwhile, the incident has raised a lot of dust in various circles with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the Students Federation of India and other outfits demanding stern action against the management.

Commissioner's

reaction

When contacted, the Commissioner of Police, B. Prasada Rao, told The Hindu from Hyderabad that they would examine taking action against the management only after recording the statement of Soujanya, who is recovering with multiple injuries in a corporate hospital. Sources said that she would need at least three days to depose before anyone.

In another development, the Jagruti Mahila Samithi interacted with some students of the college and found "startling revelations.'' The parents of Indusri, another nursing student who allegedly committed suicide by hanging last year, declared that they would lodge a complaint against the management.

Principal quits post

The management, which was on the defensive, on Thursday announced that the staff nurse at the King George Hospital, Swarnalata, who was the officiating as the principal of the college, had relinquished her post. She was in the eye of a storm after Soujanya jumped from the fourth floor of the college building in Madhavadhara on Monday.

College agrees to

bear medical expenses

Meanwhile, the Esskay College has agreed to meet the medical expenses of Soujanya. The Secretary and Correspondent of the College, J.V. Krishnaiah, refuted reports that the management had left her in the lurch

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