The Madras High Court on Thursday directed the State police as well as the father of Kallakurichi schoolgirl, whose death had sparked large-scale violence early this week, to produce on Friday an order passed by the Supreme Court with respect to the plea to include a doctor of his choice during re-postmortem.
Justice N. Sathish Kumar made it clear that he had already given reasons for non inclusion of a doctor of petitioner’s choice and ordered second post-mortem only with doctors handpicked by the court. Though he was not for modifying that order, the judge decided to take a final call after reading the Supreme Court directions.
It was the prosecution which mentioned the matter before the judge and informed him of the Supreme Court having rejected the plea of the girl’s father to include a doctor of his choice in the second post-mortem ordered by the court. The police sought a direction to her family to accept the body and perform final rites peacefully.
