Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday directed a team of doctors of Puducherry-based Jipmer to analyse the autopsy report of a class 12 girl, student of a private school in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi and submit its report within a month. Justice N Sathish Kumar gave a direction to this effect, when the matter was taken up today.
The deceased girl's family finally accepted to take her body, lying in a mortuary for about 10 days, on Saturday. State Public Prosecutor Hasan Mohammed Jinnah produced a copy of the orders of the Supreme Court, in connection with a plea from the family of the victim, whose death had sparked off violence in Kallakurichi on July 17.
The judge noted the SC order does not speak anything about the plea of P Ramalingam, the victim's father, about a second post-mortem that included a doctor of the family's choice. The court said its orders passed on July 20 do not require any revision. Earlier, the court pulled up the petitioner for insisting on his plea for another postmortem where a doctor of the family's choice should be included.
"Don't you have faith in the High Court. The team of doctors to conduct the second post-mortem was constituted only by this court and not by the government. So there will be no room for any foul play. The truth will come out shortly. Wait till then. The court can understand the pitiable plight of the parents, at the same time, one should think about the future of the thousands of students, who were studying in the school."