The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Mystery shrouds death of hostel student

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Wednesday, Jan 05, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Mystery shrouds death of hostel student

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, JAN. 4. A ninth class student of a social welfare residential school at Kalasamudram, near Kadiri in the district, T. Sivakumar (14), died under suspicious circumstances in the wee hours of Tuesday today.

According to information reaching here, the school principal, Srinivasa Sharma, and other staff members brought the badly injured boy to the Government Area Hospital at Kadiri around 2.30 a.m. They said the boy fell from a coconut tree and suffered serious injuries.

The boy was noticed by the watchman and the electrician of the school, the principal said.

He succumbed to injuries when staff members of the school were making arrangements to rush him to the Government General Hospital at Anantapur on the advice of doctors at the Kadiri hospital.

A team of reporters who visited the school, however, did not find any bloodstains under the coconut tree.

After post-mortem, parents and relatives of the boy and activists of Dandora staged a rasta roko at Indira Circle at Kadiri for two hours.

They demanded registering of a case against the principal and his arrest and an ex gratia of Rs. 5 lakhs to the bereaved family.

The protest was withdrawn after the Penukonda RDO, B.L. Chennakeshava Rao, assured the boy's family of five acres land and a house site.

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