Sri Harsha’s father has accused the Dean of Engineering and nine other faculty members of mentally harassing his son.
Its has been a fortnight since fourth-year engineering student Sri Harsha took his own life at the Amrita School of Engineering campus and the Bengaluru police have not made any arrests in the case. When TNM reached out to ACP of Electronic City S Vasu, who was the police officer in-charge of overseeing the probe and the Investigating officer Nandeesh, both refused to comment on the issue. Sri Harsha’s father has accused the Dean of Engineering and nine other faculty members of mentally harassing his son. Protests broke out in the college, which went on for four days and the students had demanded that the accused in the case be barred from entering the campus until the case reaches its logical end. However, the college management shut the college until further notice and allegedly forced the students to call off the protests. Read: ‘Amrita college is responsible for my son’s death’: Sri Harsha’s father speaks out Speaking to TNM, one of the students, whose statements was taken by the police, says that the college management has informed the students that classes would not begin on November 4 as mentioned earlier. The college has also decided to hold a “trust building” session for the parents of all students at the Choodasandra campus between November 7 and 12. “Management has informed us that college will be shut until further notice. The trust building session is because parents are also thinking about getting their children out of the college after the incident and the management does not want that. We should see what new things they will say now. The police have asked me to come and meet them after college reopens,” the student said. Sri Harsha was accused of vandalizing a CCTV camera on the night of September 23, when protests broke out in the campus. Students, who were angered by Director Dhanaraj Swamy’s alleged apathy towards their demands for their basic right to food and water, had vandalized seven buses, a window of a provision shop and one CCTV camera. He and his father were called before the disciplinary committee. It was after a second appearance before the committee that Sri Harsha killed himself. On October 22, the Parappana Agrahara Police registered an FIR against the Dean of Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Choodasandra – Dhanaraj Swamy, Rakesh SG lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Bhaskar BL from the Chemistry Department, Ravi Kumar from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Ramesh TK from the ECE Department, Nipun Kumar and Amudha J from the CSE Department, Ventatesh B from the Math Department, Nagaraja SR the HOD of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Murty NS the HOD of ECE Department in connection with the case. Students began protesting soon after Harsha’s death and demanded that members of the disciplinary committee be removed immediately. On October 24, the Dean of Engineering, Amrita University – Dr Sasangan Ramanathan, and two other members of the college’s management arrived in Bengaluru to conduct talks with the students. Read: Amrita student suicide: 10 staff members booked for allegedly tampering with crime scene
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