MALAPPURAM: The activists of AISF, the youth wing of CPI, on Tuesday stormed the Malappuram office of the Nehru Group of Institutions, protesting the death of an engineering student at the hostel room of Nehru College of Engineering and Research Centre, in Thrissur.
The irate protestors raised slogans against the college and broke windowpanes, the office chairs and vandalised the whole office which was situated near the Civil Station. This is the second day in running that the management is facing the heat over the death of the student. On Monday, activists of KSU and SFI had vandalised the office and canteen of the Nehru College in Pampady in Thrissur.
The assault came after a march taken out by the activists to civil station turned violent. The AISF workers first broke the locks of the shutters and barged into the office before wreaking a complete mayhem.
Jishnu, a first year Computer Science student at Nehru College of Engineering and Research Centre, was found hanging in the college hostel on Friday.
He was declared brought dead at the hospital. It was reported that the student killed himself after he was caught for alleged examination malpractice.
On Monday, education minister C Raveendranath had directed the Kerala Technical University to submit a report on the incident.