SV Arts College students stage dharna

The students of SV Arts College staged a dharna in front of the college registering their protest against the suicide of a student of the College.
According to the leaders of the student unions, S Jitendra Kumar was studying second-year B.Com at SV Arts College. He belonged to Sirugapuram village in Kurnool district. When Jitendra Kumar was playing in the hostel corridor, the TTD vigilance staff thrashed him.
The incident took place three days ago. They warned the student to send him out of the hostel unless he brought his parents. Jitendra Kumar committed suicide by jumping before a running train on Friday at the Srinivasa Mangapuram railway track near here. The railway police registered a case.
The leaders of student unions alleged that Jitendra Kumar committed suicide unable to bear the humiliation of being beaten up by the vigilance staff.
A large number of students, affiliated with the ABVP, TNSF, PDSU, and APS JAC here on Saturday went to the College in a rally. They crashed the barricades and tried to barge into the college but the college main gate was closed by the security staff.
The leaders of student unions demanded the government Rs 20 lakh ex gratia to the bereaved family and a job.  They alleged that the TTD vigilance staff behaved like street rowdies and thrashed the student for the trivial reason of playing on the College corridor.
Responding to the incident, Telugu Desam Party national general secretary Nara Lokesh condemned the thrashing of a student by the TTD vigilance staff. Those who beat up the student did not appear like TTD vigilance staff but they appeared like YSRCP activists, he slammed.
In a statement here on Saturday, Lokesh said that the deceased student committed suicide unable to bear the humiliation of being beaten by the vigilance staff. The deceased student opposed the TTD vigilance staff’s authority in the hostel and that was why they beat him up.
Lokesh asked why the SV Arts College management had not responded so far to the death of the student. Lokesh demanded Rs 50 lakh ex gratia to the bereaved family and demanded the YSRCP not interfere in the SC Arts College affairs.