Man seeks action against youth over daughter’s death in Erode

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Claiming that a younker was liable for the decease of his 16-year-old daughter, a man, on with his family, submitted a petition to the territory medication astatine the play grievances gathering successful Erode connected Monday (May 18, 2026), seeking enactment against him.

In the petition, R. Murugesan of Thavittupalayam successful Anthiyur taluk, who runs a salon, said his daughter, who had appeared for the Plus One examinations, informed him connected April 21, that a youth, who had allegedly been successful a narration with her for the past 4 months, was troubling her. Murugesan said that though helium and his woman counselled her, she remained distressed and successful fear, claiming the younker had threatened to misuse photographs taken earlier.

He said the household took distant her mobile telephone and went to slumber aft dinner. On April 22, helium allegedly received a telephone connected his daughter’s telephone from the youth, who abused and threatened him. Murugesan said helium disconnected the call, aft which his girl became upset and cried.

According to the petition, she was aboriginal sent to his mother-in-law’s house, wherever she went to the bath but did not instrumentality for a agelong time. Around 1 p.m., his in-laws informed him astir the aforesaid implicit the phone. When the household reached the house, they recovered the bath locked from the inside. She was recovered unconscious and rushed to the Government Hospital successful Anthiyur, wherever doctors declared her dead.

The assemblage was aboriginal taken to the Government Erode Medical College and Hospital successful Perundurai for post-mortem. Murugesan said the autopsy was conducted connected April 24 and that helium approached the Anthiyur constabulary presumption the pursuing day. He alleged that constabulary unit had gone to Kallakurichi and Villupuram districts successful hunt of the younker but returned without securing him.

He further alleged that contempt 26 days having passed since his daughter’s death, nary enactment had been taken and the post-mortem study had not been provided to the family. He besides claimed that constabulary had taken distant a enactment near by his girl and sought copies of some the enactment and the FIR. Seeking justice, helium urged the authorities to instrumentality contiguous enactment against the youth, whom helium held liable for his daughter’s death.

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Published - May 18, 2026 04:04 p.m. IST

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