The Madras High Court on Monday handed over probe into the alleged suicide of a 17-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur to the Central Bureau of Investigation amid allegations of a forced conversion attempt. The Class 12 student of a missionary school in Thanjavur had died on January 19 in Thanjavur College Hospital, 10 days after an alleged suicide attempt. …
A case has been registered under the SC/ST Act against a panchayat vice president in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore after the president, belonging to the Scheduled Caste community, accused him of forcing her to sit on the floor during meetings. Police are on the lookout for the vice president Mohan Raj, while suspended panchayat secretary Sinduja and ward member R Sugumar …
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