TN: Class 12 student’s body found in school hostel, second case in two weeks

A class 12 student from Sacred Heart School in the Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu was found dead at her hostel on Monday.

Police stated that an investigation is ongoing and that no suicide note has yet been found.

“The student was found hanging, we can’t say anything more,” Cephas Kalyan, Superintendent of Police, Tiruvallur, told NDTV. He said that the state police’s CB-CID division had taken up the investigation of the matter.

The deceased student was a native of Tiruttani, a Tamil Nadu town. To avoid any potential law and order issues, security has also been deployed in her village.

This is the second case in two weeks when a class 12 student in Tamil Nadu was discovered dead at school.

After a class 12 student from a school in the Kallakurichi district was discovered dead in her hostel on July 13, there were violent protests that left numerous people hurt, including senior police officers. Additionally, the rioters had burned at least 15 buses.

Police discovered a message in which she accused two professors of “humiliating her for her academic performance,” leading to the arrest of five persons, including her school’s principal and two teachers.