Expressing condolences to the families of the deceased girl students, Chief Minister MK Stalin announced solatium of Rs 2 lakh to each family. 

It has also been reported that the central agencies have also launched a probe and Nedumaran will be questioned soon with this regard. 

Radhakrishnan had a long-association with the BJP and he has now become a league of leaders from Tamil Nadu BJP who were appointed as Governors. 

A Chennai police official said that the student was staying in a single occupancy room at the Mahanadhi Hostel on the IIT-M campus. 

Several political leaders including Seeman, who has been claiming that he had a close proximity with Prabhakaran, have been rebutting Nedumaran's not-new claim. 

Nedumaran has been courting controversies. Looking back at the history, this is not the first time that he had made such claim.

He furtherly stressed , "Caste is a terrible weapon and leaders like Dr B R Ambedkar, who came three generations before me, also fought for this,"

Earlier on Saturday, the Union government had deployed additional security forces in the Erode East constituency.

Droupadi Murmu is all set to visit Tamil Nadu for the first time after becoming the 15th President of India in July 2022.

In a shocking incident that drawn huge attention from across the state, three people had surrendered in connection to the crime and later, the police had arrested them and lodged in a prison.