Ajmal Haris took his life, father says no

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Father of Ajmal Haris, the engineering student from Kannur who died in Bengaluru on March 30, rejected the claim of Karnataka home minister R. Ashok on Friday that it was a suicide.

Ajmal, a student of Sha-Shib Engineering College in Chikkaballapur, died in a hospital in Bengaluru after he suffered burns in the college hostel, under mysterious circumstances, on March 22.

The Karnataka home minister earlier in the day told a Malayalam TV channel that a preliminary probe indicated that it was a suicide, but there was also evidence that he had undergone ragging in the college.

M. Haris, father of Ajmal differed. “It was a murder as part of a plot hatched by a group of his senior students. Ajmal had called me the day before the tragedy and complained of ragging and looting by a group of students.

I asked him to leave the college, but he said he would do so and leave for his uncle’s shop in Bengaluru the next day,” Haris told DC “The college management is trying to protect the accused and save the reputation of the college. When Ajmal was admitted to the hospital, he had named the culprits. They brutally killed my son,” Haris said.