#justiceforsrimathi : SC rejects father's plea, fresh autopsy to be held today
However, it agreed to hear plea by parents of Kallakurichi girl on Wednesday seeking urgent hearing of petition seeking to include a medical expert of their choice in team which will conduct a re- postmortem.
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Chennai, July 19: In a latest development in the Kallakurichi student suicide case, the the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the plea of the deceased girls father to stay the second post-mortem ordered by the Madras High Court on Monday.
However, it agreed to hear plea by parents of Kallakurichi girl on Wednesday seeking urgent hearing of petition seeking to include a medical expert of their choice in team which will conduct a re- postmortem.
Madras High Court had ordered a re-postmortem on the body of a 17 year-old girl, whose death had sparked off the violence on July 17.The 17-year-old girl, studying Class 12 in a private residential school in Chinnasalem's Kaniyamoor area in Kallakurichi, 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. Reportedly, a postmortem report indicated that she had sustained injuries before her death. Police registered a case and initiated probe.
As per the Family, the girl purportedly killed herself after facing harassment at the hands of two schoolteachers. The girl's family have held the school management responsible for her death.
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