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The Madras High Court connected Friday (May 29, 2026) said it was prima facie of the presumption that the probe into the intersexual battle and execution of a 10-year-old miss successful Sulur, Coimbatore, was progressing successful the close direction. Therefore, determination was nary request to bid a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe.
A summertime abrogation Bench of Justices G.R. Swaminathan and V. Lakshminarayanan made the oral reflection during the proceeding of a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) petition filed by P. Chokalingam of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), who insisted connected constituting an SIT to analyse the brutal crime.
The judges agreed with Advocate General Vijay Narayan that the constabulary had done their champion by swiftly securing 2 individuals successful transportation with the crime. The A-G said that the constabulary were awaiting the DNA report, and that the complaint expanse would beryllium filed instantly aft the receipt of the report.
The A-G besides said that the probe successful the lawsuit was being monitored astatine the highest level and each efforts were being taken to guarantee swift justice. Government Counsel (criminal side) R. John Sathyan informed the tribunal a peculiar nationalist authoritative had been appointed to behaviour the proceedings against the accused.
After proceeding them, the judges decided to dispose of the PIL petition with definite directions related to the floating of aggregate theories regarding the transgression connected societal media since the litigant had specifically complained astir unverified, sensational, and prejudicial materials being circulated done print, broadcast, and societal media.
What does the PIL plea say?
In his affidavit, Mr. Chokalingam said helium was the president of the North Tamil Nadu portion of VHP, who had filed galore PIL petitions. He said that the 10-year-old girl, studying successful Class V, had been subjected to aggravated intersexual battle and murdered by her neighbour connected May 21, 2026.
He said that successful akin intersexual offence cases, specified arsenic the 2024 Anna University pupil intersexual battle lawsuit and the Anna Nagar insignificant miss intersexual battle case, the courts had constituted peculiar probe teams comprising elder constabulary officers, and specified constitution had helped successful speedy prosecution.
The litigant accused the media of having disclosed the individuality of the victim, successful flagrant usurpation of the statutory prohibition, by publishing the photographs and videos of household members and said that the State excessively had failed to instrumentality immoderate enactment to forestall specified disclosure successful the nationalist domain.
Mr. Chokalingam besides said that a video of Inspector General of Police (West Zone) R.V. Ramya Bharathi sharing a lighter infinitesimal with her colleagues, earlier the commencement of a property league regarding the Sulur crime, had gone viral connected societal media and generated wide nationalist outrage.
