Jharkhand Student Murder: Eight Taken into Custody
In connection with murder of a Jharkhand student, eight engineering students belonging to the Sathyabama Deemed University have been taken into custody, said media reports citing police.
Police is probing the killing of one Nirbhay Singh, who left his home in Jharkhand three years ago to study engineering at the Dr MGR Deemed University outside Chennai. He was murdered on Sunday night, allegedly by other students from Jharkhand.
The death laid bare a secret dimension to the 10000 students from Jharkhand who study at deemed or private universities in Tamil Nadu. Students act as brokers, luring new candidates from their home.
NDTV reported that as commission, students like Nirbhay get paid between Rs 50,000 to a lakh for each new candidate who signs up at their college.
According to report, in Nirbhay;s case, one of the students he was brokering ended up going to a rival college and in the tussle over this, between two groups of students, Nirbhay was killed.
“They appoint them as sort of agents and in fact they also go to their places, and offer them five to ten percent commission if freshers refer their names,” Jayaprakash Gandhi, an education consultant, was quoted as saying.
(Based on internet reports)
