A day after the Supreme Court refused to interfere with a Madras High Court order transferring the investigation into a 17-year-old schoolgirl’s death by suicide in Thanjavur, the agency’s Special Crimes Branch here registered a case and launched an investigation into the “unnatural death”.
The CBI adopted the original First Information Report of the Thirukattupalli police in Thanjavur district, which had no reference to any forced religious conversion. In her statement to a Sub-Inspector at the Thanjavur Medical College Hospital, the girl said she was a Class XII student at Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School, Michaelpatti, in the district.
She could not concentrate on her studies because the hostel warden, Sister Sagaya Mary, asked her and other students to clean the premises, remove grass from the ground, etc. The warden also took the girl to an office in Karumandapam in Tiruchi in connection with matters concerning the running of the school hostel, without her mother’s knowledge.
