It was the morning of 29th march 2011. At 9:00am, as stated by the students of IIIT Allahabad that Akshay Tyagi, a student of First Year of Electronics an Communication branch of IIIT Allahabad was run over by the bus and died instantly. Here are some accounts of the same shared on social web :
https://www.facebook.com/notes/siddharth-munot/student-agitation-at-iiita/10150139913553192
https://justiceforakshay.blogspot.com/
The administration of college reached the premise, Naini Hostel of IIIT Allahabad, which is around 10km away from Allahabad and maintained separately for First Year Students. As the authorities reached the venue, they adviced the students to refrain from filing an F.I.R against the institute. As stated by the students present in Naini Hostel, when the students were not ready to give in to the authoratative words, the competent authority called up the parents of the eye wittnesses and complained that their kids were causing riots in college. But as stated by the students, when they came to know of the misguiding FIR filed, students got agitated, then the students claim to have gone to the police station to correct the FIR. The body was also sent for post mortem. The college was not declared close to mourn the death, but a condolence meet at 5.30pm the same day took place in senate hall of the institute.
The next day, 30th March 2011 the cremation took place in the presence of family members and students but no one from the college adminstration.
On 31st March 2011, Morning 9am there was a candle march for the deceased soul and the students put forth few demands including
-compensation for the family
-dropping the naini hostel
-improving the health and living conditions of the all the hostels of the institute.
-And an ambulance at the disposal of students at any moment of time.
In response of this the Director constituted a committee with
1. Prof. R.C.Tripathi - Chairman
2. Chief Proctor - Member
3. Wardens - Member
4. Students Representative - Member
5. Deputy Registrar (Fin.) - Coordinator
Bbut the students disagreed to the committee as they were represented by only a single member and feared that the agenda would not meet theirs.
The students reported that the Director announced that "the family had rejected a compensation of 50 lakh ruppees" but when later the students called to confirm with the family, the mother of the demised informed that she was never approached by IIITA adminstration. Since then, the students have assembelled outside the adminstration building and put forth their protest and their demands. To add a note, you can see in the students demanding the resignation of the Director of the institute. Here are videos shared by the students:
Deadlock continues between students and IIIT-A admin - The Times of India
https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D15OQfT7newQ&h=c21ef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQ4ivcHuvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cE7LFCax
Latest update on the case https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139681292767827
Help these students if possible or please suggest something, they need your help, dont deprived them of their rights
