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"No complaint over the death of girl student"

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Two other girls died in the past: panel

CHENNAI: The State Minorities Commission has said the attack on St. Fatima Higher Secondary School at Omalur, Salem, appeared to be not just the result of the anger among the people over the death of a student.

In a report to the Chief Minister, a team, led by commission chairman Vincent Chinnadurai, which visited the school, said that besides Suganya, two other girls of the school had died.

It was learnt that one of them, an inmate of the Government Adi Dravidar Girls Hostel nearby, had left behind a note that she was ending her life as her parents had scolded her.

She hanged herself in the hostel.

Last year, another student, Jasmin, set herself ablaze at home, enquiries revealed.

"Not parents"

Though rumours were being spread, no complaint was filed with the Directorate of School Education and the Police or Revenue Departments about problems, if any, faced by girl students of the school.

The persons who attacked the school were not the parents of girls.

If the school management was taken over from minorities, it would set a bad precedent, the Commission said.

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