HC takes up letter on student suicides as PIL

HYDERABAD: Responding to a letter written by a social activist from Prakasam district on the spate of suicides by students of corporate colleges managed by ministers and their relatives and how the state has done precious little, the Hyderabad High Court has admitted the letter as a public interest petition (PIL) and will hear the case on Tuesday.
The court made chief secretaries of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, home secretaries, education secretaries, Intermediate boards of both states and directors of Chaitanya and Narayana colleges as respondents.The letter, addressed to the chief justice, was written by Dasari Emmanuel of Lok Satta Agitation Society, who contended that as many as 10 students from these two colleges had committed suicide in recent past in both the states.