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Kannur Student Suicide Case: Crime Branch Arrests Dental College HOD M Kondanda Ram After SC Rejects Bail
24htopnews | July 20, 2026 10:09 PM CST

The Crime Branch has arrested M Kondanda Ram, Head of the Dental Anatomy Department at a private dental college in Kannur, in connection with the alleged abetment of student Nithin Raj's suicide. Ram was traced to a hideout in Karnataka after the Supreme Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea. Investigators allege the student was humiliated in class before his death in April.

Kannur: The Crime Branch probing the alleged suicide of a student at a private dental college in Kannur arrested the head of the Dental Anatomy Department, the prime accused in the case, from Kodagu in Karnataka, officials said on Monday.

The arrested accused was identified as M Kondanda Ram, a native of Chittur in Andhra Pradesh.

He was taken into custody after the Supreme Court dismissed his anticipatory bail plea on July 13.

The victim, Nithin Raj, a student of the private dental college at Anjarakandy, was found dead on April 10 after falling from a building on the college campus in a suspected suicide.


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