Overview

• Hemashree, a 17-year-old first-year intermediate student from Rasapalayam village, was found dead in the hostel building of RNR Intermediate College’s ISKCON Centre campus on Sunday.
• Parents, relatives and activists from the YSRCP Student Wing and the Students’ Federation of India have maintained protests outside the college and the nearby Enel Hospital, accusing management of negligence and poor communication.
• Nellore police used a lathi-charge to disperse demonstrators who tried to enter the campus and detained several student union leaders along with the student’s mother.
• Parent associations and union leaders have formally called for a high-level judicial inquiry and criminal proceedings against the college for alleged safety violations and unauthorized hostel operations.
• A regional inspection officer reported that the Board of Intermediate Education’s preliminary findings linked the death to academic stress, with no first information report filed to date.