COIMBATORE: Family members of N Logeshwari, who died on Thursday after being made to jump from the second floor of her college building during a
disaster management drill, have blamed the college authorities, saying there was no intimation to parents about the drill.
The grief-stricken parents said the college did not inform them about the accident. It was through parents of other students that they got to know about it.
“Only after she was taken to the
Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital we got to know about the fall,” her elder brother N Selvakumar said. Logeswari is the first graduate student from the family.
The family rushed to the hospital where doctors declared Logeswari brought dead.
“We have lodged a complaint against the trainer and the college management,” Selvakumar said “Safety of students on the campus is responsibility of the institution. We don’t know whether any faculty member was supervising the drill,’’ said Logeshwari’s father A Nallagounder, a 63-year-old farmer of Nathegounden Pudur.
Nallagounder told reporters that this was nothing but
murder. “When my daughter refused to jump, she should not have been
forced to jump. The college authorities should have supervised the exercise and warned the trainer not to force my daughter to jump,’’ he said.
Her mother N Sivakami told reporters that the college management should take the responsibility for the incident.
Logeshwari’s classmates said she was a studious and sincere student.
“Since she hailed from a lower middle-class family, Logeshwari would always say she wanted to work hard and lift her family up,” said a student of the college.
The body of the student was handed over to the family on Friday afternoon, after which the cremation was performed.
