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NCPCR team visits Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur to inquire into suicidal death of minor girl

Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 31 (ANI): A team of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Monday visited Thanjavur to inquire into the suicidal death of a minor girl in the district.

ANI Jan 31, 2022 13:44 IST googleads

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Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 31 (ANI): A team of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Monday visited Thanjavur to inquire into the suicidal death of a minor girl in the district.
As per NCPR notice, the concerned Superintendent of Police has been asked to be present for the probe.
Meeting with parents of a deceased girl and school authorities also to be done by NCPCR.
Earlier on Friday, the Society of Immaculate Heart of Mary moved a petition before the Madurai bench of Madras High Court on Friday in the Thanjavur's girl suicide case.
In the petition, they stated that there was no forced religious conversion happening at school and no student was ever ill-treated.
They also mentioned that the impleading petition has been filed only to dispel the allegations made against them and the institution and not to show anyone in a bad light.
Society of Immaculate Heart of Mary is an organisation under which the school where the girl was studying functions.
The case pertains to a 17-year old girl from a poor background, who studied in a Christian Missionary School in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district and was allegedly being forced to convert to Christianity by her school. Allegations of torture after her refusal to convert were also levelled by the girl. According to police, the victim had consumed poisonous material on January 9 and had succumbed ten days later. (ANI)

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