Crime Branch To Probe IIT-M Student's Death

Parents of victim critical of local police

- R. Sivaraman

The investigation into the death of 19-year-old student Fathima Latheef on the Indian Institute of Technology campus here has been transferred to the Central Crime Branch following allegations levelled by her parents about harassment from faculty members and subsequent condemnation from political parties and student organisations.

Fathima, a first-year student of M.A. Humanities, reportedly ended her life on Saturday in her hostel room. On going through her mobile phone, her parents said that they had learnt that she had been harassed by faculty and discriminated against on religious grounds.