"Not Prestige Issue": Supreme Court To Tamil Nadu On Suicide Probe By CBI
NDTV
The girl alleged that the hostel warden had forced her to clean the hostel and do maintenance work. Her parents have demanded an investigation into conversion allegations.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the police plea against a CBI probe in the suicide of a 17-year-old school girl in Tamil Nadu. But the court said that the central agency can continue probe in the case where the student was allegedly coerced to convert to Christianity
The teen had died by suicide after consuming poison at her home in Thanjavur on January 9 and died 10 days later. In a video, the girl alleged that the hostel warden had forced her to clean the hostel and do maintenance work.
The hostel warden has been arrested under the Juvenile Act apart from charges of abetting suicide.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M Trivedi issued notice on the appeal filed by the Tamil Nadu DGP challenging the Madras HC order.
