Manjunath murder strikes fear in IIM students

     Ahmedabad: The management students at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, are concerned about their security after the murder of S Manjunath, an Indian Oil Corporation sales manager, who was allegedly killed while trying to prevent the owner of the petrol station from adulterating fuel in his outlet. According to witnesses, Manjunath, a computer engineer and an MBA from IIM, Lucknow, was shot dead by the son of the owner of the Mittal Automobiles pump when he went there to inspect fuel quality. The students at IIM stressed that both the Government and the Institute should ensure security for them at the time of placements. They have to come always on the track of those anti- social elements, said Vikas, a IIM student. Besides students, the faculty members also have expressed their dissatisfaction with the government and blamed politicians for the insecurity. "I think it's very sad, very unfortunate that we have this tragedy.

    Earlier we had Satendra Dubey from IIT. If you talk to politicians, they only talk of values. The fact is politicians are contributing to the deterioration of the values. We can not rely on the government because the Government is doing nothing. They invariably are together with police and their time goes in suppressing the information as much in protecting themselves, So expecting from them to bring down the criminality in the politics, I think it's a wild dream," said Singh, faculty at IIM. S Manjunath, alumnus of IIM, was working as a quality controller with Indian Oil Corporation. Manjunath was murdered because he was determined to prevent a petrol pump owner from adulterating the fuel in his outlet. His body was recovered last Sunday. The 27-year-old had joined IOC on 23 July, 2003 as area sales officer in Lakhimpur.