Just a day after the Kochi City police said that the organisers of the tech fest conducted by the School of Engineering (SoE) of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) did not alert them or write to them seeking security for the event, a letter written by the Principal of SoE to the university Registrar requesting adequate security and deployment of police has emerged.
Four persons, including three students, were killed and scores injured in a stampede on the second day of Dhishna 2023, the three-day tech fest, on November 25, 2023 evening.
Just six policemen and a control room vehicle were present at the open-air auditorium on the Cusat campus when the stampede happened, which the police attributed to the lack of communication from university authorities asking for police security.
