Arunachal boy death: Minister Ninong Ering to meet Rahul, Kejriwal today

New Delhi: Political pressure continues to mount in the Arunacahal Pradesh student death case. Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Ninong Ering along with a group of students is slated to meet Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday.

The group led by Ering will also be meeting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal later in the day.

Meanwhile, Nido Taniam's body was taken to his home in Arunachal Pradesh where his last rites were performed by family members.

The initial post mortem report suggests that Nido died of swelling in his brain and fluid in his lungs. But the police say that the actual cause of death could only be determined once the viscera report also came in.

The central forensic laboratory has been asked to expedite the process and submit the report in a week.

The death of the 19-year-old student allegedly in a brawl with a shopkeeper in Delhi's Lajpat Nagar has enraged students from the north-eastern states across the country. The incident has once again raised questions about indifference to people from the north-east.

In Delhi, a candle light vigil was held at Jantar Mantar in Nido's memory. Student organisations from the northeast have been protesting since Saturday over the student's death. They now demand an anti-racism law for their safety in the country.

The northeastern student groups say they are not protesting merely to demand justice for Taniam. It is for those thousands of people from the northeast who daily face some or the other form of harassment.

Nido Taniam, the son of a Congress MLA in Arunachal Pradesh, was found dead inside his room last week. He had allegedly been beaten up by workers at a sweet shop in Lajpat Nagar on Wednesday after he broke a window pane there for allegedly being mocked over his hair.

Eyewitnesses and Taniam's friends had claimed that the police, after taking Rs 10,000 from Taniam to pay for the damages, dropped him back at the shop where he was beaten up again.

The police now say that they had handed the victim over to his uncle. "This was done after a written compromise between the boy and the shopkeepers was reached," they said.