Tension prevailed at the Govindaraja Swamy temple area in the heart of the city after an SSC student of a corporate school died under mysterious circumstances.
G. Mohankrishna Reddy (14), son of Parandhama Reddy and Lakshmi, was found lying in a classroom with bleeding injuries. Though the students brought it to the notice of the school management, the administrative staff and the teachers reportedly stayed away from the issue. Finally, the students brought Mohankrishna Reddy down from the third floor and shifted him in an auto-rickshaw to a private hospital and 45 minutes elapsed in the process. The doctors at the hospital declared Mohankrishna Reddy brought dead.
The irked relatives of the deceased came down heavily on the school management for not only putting any effort to save the student, but also for trying to hush up the issue. The police and the school management remain tight-lipped on the cause of the clash. Without going into the nature of the attack, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Tirupati East division) P. Ravishankar Reddy said that Mohankrishna Reddy’s nerves snapped after he fell on broken glass panes, which led to his death. The school’s version was that two boys tried to open a glass door from the opposite sides. The glass pane broke and the pieces scattered over the ground. Mohankrishna fell on a broken piece. Another boy was also injured in the melee, but his name was not revealed. The parents and the kin of the deceased, who staged a dharna at the school, suspected that the death could have resulted due to a clash between the two students.
Student unions lashed at the corporate school for its negligence and demanded a high-level inquiry into the incident. While the SFI demanded probe by a sitting judge, the TNSF sought CBCIB inquiry.
