Tamil Nadu student suicide case: HC attacks BJP leaders for alleging conversion
Hindustan TimesChennai: The Madras High Court came down heavily on BJP leaders without taking their names for suspecting religious conversion into the suicide of a 17-year-old girl student in 2022 in Tamil Nadu. The court also refused to quash the chargesheet filed against the hostel warden for allegedly abetting the girl’s suicide. Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai and his party leaders in January 2022 had alleged that the child studying in class 12 and staying in the school’s hostel in Michaelpatti in Thanjavur district, died by suicide because she was allegedly pressurising by her hostel warden to convert to Christianity. “Perusal of the records shows that the attempt was made to stamp this event as forcible religious conversion, but the 1st respondent Investigating Officer has done a remarkable job in an honest manner to bring out the truth,” said Justice G Ilangovan of the Madurai Bench of the Madras high court.