No progress in CBI probe into Fathima’s loss of life, say parents

Despite the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) taking on the probe, there was no progress in the case associated to the loss of life of Fathima Latheef, a 19-year-old pupil who was discovered useless in her hostel room on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, her parents have alleged.

The Klappana resident, a really vivid pupil and a rank-holder, was a first-year pupil of Humanities when she reportedly ended her life on November 9, 2019. Her household had filed a criticism after retrieving a be aware from her cellphone, in response to which she was dealing with harassment from some college members, forcing her to take the acute step. She had joined IIT in July 2019 and was the category topper when she died. “CBI officials had called us a couple of times during the last months, but they are yet to take our statement. I have sent a mail to the CBI director sharing our grievances and I want to believe that my daughter will get justice,” stated Latheef, Fathima’s father.

The case was transferred to the CBI when her household and a delegation of MPs visited Union Home Minister Amit Shah and handed over a memorandum signed by 41 MPs looking for a good probe.

Her household had raised a number of allegations after the loss of life because the screensaver of her cellphone and notes saved in it had named the individuals answerable for her loss of life. But with the Kotturpuram police insisting that they may not discover any suicide be aware, her father had alleged that Tamil Nadu police was making an attempt to botch up the investigation.

Initial assumption

The preliminary assumption of the police was that Fathima dedicated suicide since she couldn’t rating good marks in the primary semester examination. But in response to her household, she had scored the best marks in her class even in her final examination. They had additionally alleged that IIT authorities had prevented different college students from speaking to Fathima’s household and suspended the lessons of her batch instantly after the incident.

Meanwhile, Kollam MP N.K. Premachandran has written to the Union Home Minister demanding a time-bound investigation. “The probe should be expedited as there is no breakthrough even one year after Fathima’s death. The CBI authorities also failed to respond to her father’s appeals and immediate steps should be taken to complete the probe,” he stated.

Mr. Premachandran additionally noticed that the mysterious deaths of scholars at IITs have been a matter of main concern. “The reason for the increasing number of such incidents is the failure in finding and punishing the culprits,” he stated.