A case has been registered on the suspicious death of a 16-year-old girl who married a dalit boy at Kathayan village in the district on July 6, after her father lodged a complaint to police.
Kavya's father Allirajan in his complaint said that he suspected that his daughter had been poisoned to death.
Police Inspector Satheeshkumar told reporters today that the reason for the death of the girl would be known only after the postmortem report was received from Madurai Government Rajaji Hospital.
In his police complaint on June 13, Allirajan had alleged that his daughter was kidnapped by the dalit boy Saranraj on May 16 and later he married her. The boy and the girl surrendered before the police the next day and police arrested Saranraj on charges of kidnapping and marrying a minor girl.
However, a Judicial Magistrate court ordered release his release on conditional bail.
During the proceedings before Judicial Magistrate, Allirajan refused to take the girl with him saying that he had to take care of his other children and could not focus on the safety and security of Kavya. Following which the girl was sent to Pazhanganatham home for children.
Allirajan had also filed a Habeas Corpus Petition in the Madurai bench of the Madrs High Court. On June 13 court directed that the girl be sent with her parents. Then the girl's parents put her in her aunt's house at Erode.
The girl who had returned to her parent's house on July 3 was found dead on July 6, Satheeshkumar said.
