The police tried to control the situation but protesters started pelting stones at them in which more than 20 policemen, including DIG M Pandian, were injured. Meanwhile, the girl’s parents have also requested the protesters not to indulge in violence.

According to the police, “The agitators, pushing down barricaded put up by the police, stormed the premises of a school at nearby Chinnasalem and set buses parked inside the institution’s premises on fire.”

Reacting to the Kallakurichi incident, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin tweeted, “Violence worries me. The accused will be punished when the police probe over the school girl’s dead ends. I have asked DGP, Home Secretary, to travel to Kallakurichi. I request people to maintain peace.”

Notably, on Wednesday, a class 12 girl student was found dead in the hostel of a residential school. Later the school management informed the police and shifted the girl student for post-mortem to the Kallakurichi Medical College and Hospital.

However, under section 174 (unnatural death), the student death case has been registered.