he controversy over the alleged suicide by two Intermediate students at Narayana Junior College hostel in Kadapa took a turn on Wednesday, with Malepadu Subba Rao, father of Malepadu Nandini, and Chavva Balakrishna Reddy, father of Chavva Manisha Reddy, expressing doubts over the death of their daughters.
Mr. Subba Rao, a trader at Om Shantinagar in Kadapa, who attended a massive rally and dharna organised by the Arya Vysya Sangham in front of the Kadapa Collectorate on Wednesday, alleged attempts to hush up the case to save the college management. Demanding a CBI inquiry into his daughter’s death, he said: “How can Nandini commit suicide with her feet touching the cot?. Her spectacles were on her and did not fall.”
Mr. Rao also questioned the delay on the part of the college management in informing him about his daughter’s death, saying: “I was informed of her death around 8 p.m. on Monday, nearly three-and-a-half hours after the incident.” Demanding stringent action against the Narayana College management, he said no other girl should suffer the injustice meted out to his daughter.
Meanwhile, Mr. Balakrishna Reddy and Saroja, parents of Manisha Reddy, maintained that their daughter’s death was not a case of suicide and demanded a juidicial inquiry. Mr. Reddy said Manisha’s body bore minor injuries, adding that she had been killed, and that her death was being projected as suicide.
Revealing that he came to know about his daughter’s death through TV news, he asked as to why the management concealed information.
I was told of her death around 8 p.m. on Monday, nearly three-and-a-half hours after the incident.
M. Subba Rao
Father of Malepadu Nandini
