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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Wednesday directed the State to record a antagonistic affidavit to the nationalist involvement litigation petition seeking a CB-CID probe into the alleged caste sidesplitting of a Scheduled Caste youth, Hariharan, of Pudukkottai district.
A Division Bench of Justices P. Velmurugan and C. Kumarappan directed the constabulary not to record the last study earlier the proceedings tribunal till further orders. The substance was posted for proceeding aft 2 weeks for filing of the antagonistic affidavit.
The tribunal was proceeding the petition filed by K. Muruganandam of Vallathirakottai successful Pudukkottai district, the District Coordinator of Neelam Panpattu Maiyam. He said Hariharan was successful a narration with a pistillate belonging to an intermediate caste. The woman’s household opposed the relationship.
In November 2025, the 2 had eloped. Following a complaint, the constabulary warned them and sent them backmost to their homes. The woman’s household members threatened Hariharan. However, nary extortion was fixed to him. His household was nether changeless menace and intelligence distress, the petitioner said.
The woman’s household was trying to wed her disconnected forcibly. On April 21, 2026, Hariharan reportedly near his location aft receiving a telephone from the pistillate astir the forced marriage. On April 23, his assemblage was recovered successful a quarry with wounded marks, helium said.
The petitioner said the quality of the injuries and the surrounding circumstances gave emergence to a beardown and tenable suspicion of homicide. Given the sensitivity of the lawsuit and the evident bias of the jurisdictional police, a just and impartial probe was necessary. The petitioner sought a CB-CID probe into the decease of the youth, due compensation to the household and employment to a household member.
