Not rape, murder but suicide: Madras High Court on Kallakurichi student death
India Today
The Madras High Court has held that the death of a Class 12 student in Tamil Nadu's Kallakuruchi was a clear case of suicide.
Rejecting any foul play in the death of a 17-year-old student in Tamil Nadu's Kallakuruchi, the Madras High Court held that it was a clear case of suicide and not murder or rape.
Justice G K Ilanthiraiyan gave the order based on the report of the three-member team of doctors of JIPMER in Puducherry, who analysed the two post-mortem reports on the girl.
Justice Ilanthiraiyan held that prima facie the case appeared to be a clear case of suicide and not of rape and murder. The JIPMER report, after analysing the two postmortem reports, has said that the injuries sustained by the girl were indicative of jumping off the third floor of the building.
"It is confirmed that there is no evidence to attract the offence under rape and murder. Though the learned counsel for intervenor appearing for the defacto complainant leveled so many contradictions between both the autopsy reports, it would not attract the offence of rape and murder. That apart, on perusal of the suicidal note of the deceased, it is very clear that the deceased felt difficulties in solving equations of the chemistry subjects," the court order said.
The order also had the suicide note attached in it. Further, a red coloured mark found near the staircase on the third floor which was suspected to be blood was found to be of paint and not of blood.
The judge gave order while granting bail to five people -- all teachers and administrators of the school, last week.
A 17-year-old girl, studying in Class 12 at a school in Kallakurichi in Salem district, was found dead on July 13 on the hostel premises. The girl, an inmate of a room on the third floor of the hostel was suspected to have ended her life by jumping to the ground from the top floor.
