A high-level investigation has been sought by activists into the the unnatural death of Kavya Poojary, a class 10 student of Alva’s High School in Moodbidri on July 20.
They came under the banner Samana Manaska Sanghatanegala Vedike and sat on dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Monday.
Addressing the gathering, K.S. Vimala, activist and member of the State government’s Expert Committee on Preventing Sexual Violence against Women and Children, alleged that it was a planned murder. Attempts were being made to hush up the case.
She questioned why BJP leaders like Nalin Kumar Kateel and Shobha Karandlaje, MPs, were not speaking on the matter.
Ms. Vimala said that the Deputy Commissioner had constituted five committees to verify the lapses, if any, in the education institutes managed by the Alva Education Foundation as pointed out by V.S. Ugrappa, chairman of the committee. Now, the Deputy Commissioner should make the findings of the committee public.
She alleged that the coastal districts of the State have become laboratories of communal forces for their experiments. Some private education institutes supported such forces. Some government officials were supporting the malpractices of private education institutes.
The BJP leaders were supporting communal forces, she alleged.
Narendra Nayak, president of Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, Muneer Katipalla, State president of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), and former Mayor K Ashraf, were present.
