Anna University maintains security protocol amid sensational verdict
Sources from the university said that only one entrance was being opened and all visitors, including students, teaching, non-teaching staff, parents and visitors, were being thoroughly checked before entering the premises, and a register was also being maintained for them.
CHENNAI: On a day when the convict in the Anna University sexual assault case, Gnanasekar, was sentenced to life imprisonment for a minimum period of 30 years without pardon, the security measures in and around the university campus are still continuing as per the protocol issued by the government.
Sources from the university said that only one entrance was being opened and all visitors, including students, teaching, non-teaching staff, parents and visitors, were being thoroughly checked before entering the premises, and a register was also being maintained for them.
A senior professor of the institution, seeking anonymity, said that recently, the syndicate members, the highest decision-making body of the university, appreciated the authorities for evicting private occupants from the building constructed on the premises on Gandhi Mandapam Road in Kotturpuram.
He said other security measures, including monitoring of the CCTV functioning and footage 24/7 by authorities concerned, identifying unauthorised persons entering the university campus and night patrolling inside the campus.