
Thanjavur student death | SC refuses to intervene in transfer of case to CBI
The Hindu
Bench asks Tamil Nadu not to take it as a ‘prestige issue’
The Supreme Court on Monday did not interfere in a Madras High Court order transferring the investigation into the death by suicide of a 17-year-old student at Thanjavur to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) amidst controversy sparked by a private video on social media in which the girl allegedly said she was asked to convert to Christianity.
"The investigation in terms of the impugned order [of Madras HC] will continue," a Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M. Trivedi directed.

Former CM B.S. Yediyurappa had challenged the first information report registered on March 14, 2024, on the alleged incident that occurred on February 2, 2024, the chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and the February 28, 2025, order of taking cognisance of offences afresh by the trial court.