lavanya case,
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has said that the body of 17-year-old Lavanya, who died by suicide in Thanjavur, should be recieved by her parents and cremated on January 22, Saturday. Justice GS Swaminathan was hearing the student’s father’s plea seeking a CB-CID inquiry into his daughter’s death. The High Court said that the Thanjavur police should conduct a proper probe and investigate the 44-second clip doing the rounds on social media, in which Lavanya can be heard saying that two years ago, a woman called Raquel Mary had asked her to convert to Christianity, which she and her parents refused. However, the HC said that the police should not harass the person who had taken the video, and the police’s investigation should concentrate on the circumstances that led to the student’s suicide.