The reports that the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) team will be visiting Thanjavur on January 30 and January 31 to study the reasons that led to the death of 12th standard student Lavanya have triggered a flurry of activity within the Church.
Lavanya, a student of Sacred Heart Girls’ Higher Secondary School, committed suicide after consuming pesticide after she was harassed and tortured by the school authorities to convert to Christianity. After the girl refused to convert to Christianity, she was humiliated by the warden and a teacher of the school.
The NCPCR team will be meeting the parents of the deceased, the involved police officers and the school authorities to gather information on the suicide of the 17-year-old student, as per reports.
The BJP president JP Nadda had demanded a CBI investigation. The liberal and pro-Church media outlets have been down playing the incident which had triggered a huge national outrage. The Times of India and Police tried to pass it off as a suicide to bail out the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Church authorities have tried to approach a senior BJP leader in a bid to control the damage through some party members. One of the solution they had suggested was to suspend the teacher and warden whose name was taken by Lavanya in her video before her death. The leader is believed to have told that nothing was possible as the State BJP has decided to take this up as a major issue. State BJP president Annamalai has called for investigation in a similar case where a Hindu girl was raped and killed in a Christian school a few years ago. The investigation in the case was scuttled by DMK, a BJP leader said.
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