The Supreme Court on Monday is scheduled to hear an appeal filed by Tamil Nadu to stay a Madras High Court order transferring the investigation into the death by suicide of a 17-year-old student at Thanjavur to the CBI, amid controversy sparked by a private video on social media in which the girl allegedly said she was asked to convert to Christianity.
The case is before a Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M. Trivedi.
The State government, represented by advocate Joseph S. Aristotle, has argued that there was no reason for the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court to hand over the case to the central agency.
