Chennai, July 23 (UNI) In line with the Madras High Court order, the parents of 12th standard girl student, who had jumped to death at a private residential school leading to largescale violence in Kallakurichi taluk on Sunday last, received her body and it was laid to rest amid tight security, today. Tens and hundreds of people bid a tearful adieu as the body of Srimathi was laid to rest at her native Periyanesalur village in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu.
Earlier, the girl’s parents received the body at the Kallakurichi Government Hospital at 0700 hrs this morning as per the court order and brought it to her residence in Cuddalore district where a large number of people, including State Ministers, district officials, and representatives of various political parties paid their last respects. Later, her body was taken in a procession and laid to rest in a crematorium. The girl’s mysterious death triggered protests with a large number of people staging road blockades on the Salem-Chennai highway demanding justice for her and action against the school management. The four-day long protest turned violent on Sunday last when the agitators, breached the police barricades, pelted stones at the police, stormed the private residential school campus, and indulged in arson and rioting after police resorted to lathicharge to disperse them.
Police had also fired two rounds in the air but it did not have any desired effect as the protestors, who assembled in large numbers through a What- sApp group demanding justice for her, outnumbered the police personnel. A number of school buses are parked on campus.
