Chennai, July 17 (BPNS)

Kallakurichi district collector, P.N. Sreedhar has imposed restrictions under Section 144 in Kallakurichi taluk and parts of Chinna Salem taluk till July 31. Violence  erupted in Kallakurichi taluk on Sunday morning after agitating students and relatives of a Class XII student who died due to suicide a couple of days before pelted stones and threw bottles at the police.

It may be noted that the Class XII student of a private residential school at Kallakurichi had committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of her hostel building a couple of days before. In the suicide note that she had left behind, the girl mentioned the names of two of her teachers as mentally torturing her.

The relatives of the girl and student organizations were protesting ever since the death of the girl that the two teachers be arrested after police let them off following interrogation. On Sunday, the agitation turned violent with the protestors attacking police with stones and bottles.

Police were outnumbered at first and protestors barged into the school, damaged the school building, and torched several school buses. The protestors also set to fire a police vehicle and police had to bring in additional force from adjoining districts to quell the violence.

Inspector General of Police, M. Pandyan who was leading the police operation from the front, and twenty policemen were injured in the stone-throwing and bottle attack by the violent protestors.

Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has in the meanwhile directed the Director General of Police and the state Home secretary to visit the place and to provide an on-the-spot report of the issue. He also called upon the people to remain calm and said that the culprits would be arrested and brought before the law of the land after the police enquiry was completed.