Police raid 4 places in student suicide case

Coimbatore: Five days after a 17-year-old school girl died by suicide, the city police searched the house of the victim, the accused teacher, chamber of the school principal and the house of the victim’s friend at RS Puram on Tuesday.
Police teams seized notebooks, a laptop and two mobile phones from the four places.
The Plus Two student had committed suicide at her residence on November 11 after allegedly being sexually assaulted by a teacher. Police have arrested teacher K Mithun Chakravarthy, 31, of Lawley Road and former school principal Meera Jackson in connection with the case.
A police team searched the house of the victim’s 21-year-old friend at RS Puram, an officer said. “He was a former student of the school. We plan to question him. The girl’s family had handed over a note written by her. A forensic team is analysing it. We have a letter written by the girl to get transfer certificate from the school to match with the note. We are investigating the case from different angles,” said a police officer.