The prosecution on Monday submitted before the Kerala High Court that the custodial interrogation of the two teachers of Trinity Lyceum, Kollam, was inevitable in connection with the suicide of a girl student of the school recently.
Opposing the anticipatory bail petition filed by the two teachers, senior government pleader Suman Chakravarthy submitted that the student had committed suicide due to the mental harassment and humiliation inflicted by these teachers. He made the submission when the anticipatory petition filed by the teachers, Sindhu Paul and Crescence Navis, came up for hearing. The government pleader submitted that the witnesses in the case were students and the colleagues of the petitioners. Therefore, there was a possibility of the witnesses being influenced by the petitioners.
The pleader also contended that the investigation had revealed that the girl could not bear the harassment meted out by the petitioners. The instigation by the petitioners was very evident from the circumstances and the CCTV footage, besides the statements of the witnesses. In fact, one petitioner was the class teacher of the girl. She took private tuitions in her subject, English. She would adopt an unfriendly attitude towards students who opted other teachers/institutes for tuition. The girl went to another teacher for tuition. The class teacher had therefore harassed the girl in the classroom, the prosecution alleged.
Meanwhile, the girl’s father R. Prasannakumar has filed a petition seeking to implead him in the case opposing the bail pleas.
