JUDGMENT

T.S. Thakur, J.

1. I have had the advantage of going through the order proposed by my noble sister Banumathi J. I regret to say that I have not been able to persuade myself to agree to the dismissal of the writ petition which in my opinion raises sensitive issues touching not only the fairness of investigation in a case involving death of a young college student in suspicious circumstances but also whether the sordid episode was a result of ragging of the deceased by her senior colleagues which the college authorities failed to prevent despite being informed about the same. Given the circumstances pointed out by the Petitioner it may be premature for this Court to hold that the investigation conducted by the local police was fair or that the deceased jumped from the four storeyed college hostel to commit suicide as she was carrying an unwanted pregnancy. The Petitioner who is the unfortunate father of the deceased has attempted to point out certain deficiencies and contradictions in the findings of the investigating agency which in my opinion need to be investigated in a dispassionate attempt to discover the truth, by an outside agency like the CBI.

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