Ilavarasan Death

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  It Was Suicide, Says Court On Tamil Nadu Man Whose Death Led To Rioting

  The death of a man whose body was found on the tracks in Tamil Nadu days after he married an upper caste woman in 2013 was due to suicide, the Madras High Court ruled today.

• Ilavarasan's death a case of suicide, not murder, says police in status report

  For the first time, the Tamil Nadu Police has officially said that the death of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man who was found dead in Dharmapuri district last month, was a case of suicide and not murder.

• High Court moved against inquiry commission into Ilavarasan's murder

  A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking to quash Tamil Nadu Government's July 8 order appointing retired Justice SR Singaravelu as the Commissioner of Inquiry into the circumstances leading to the recent death of Dalit youth Ilavarasan in Dharmapuri.

• Ilavarasan: 'Killed' by politics?

  On July 4, the body of a young Dalit boy, Ilavarasan, was found on the tracks in Dharmapuri, northern Tamil Nadu. Initially reported as a suicide, his family and Dalit groups suspected murder by upper caste groups.

• Dalit man's death in Tamil Nadu: Ilavarasan's parents seek CBI probe

  Parents of Ilavarasan, the Dalit young man who was found dead a fortnight ago near a railway track in Dharmapuri, are seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI or a Special Investigation Team or SIT.

• Dalit man's death: Suicide, say police; parents suspect foul play

  Ilavarasan's death could well be a suicide, say the police, who claim to have accessed his mobile phone recording of a conversation between the Dalit man and his wife a few days before his death in which he talks of killing himself if she did not return to him.

• Dalit man's death: Second autopsy report submitted to High Court

  The three-member team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), which performed the second autopsy on the body of Dalit man E Ilavarasan on a directive from the Madras High Court, submitted their report in a sealed cover today.

• Tamil Nadu's tragic love story: second autopsy report due today

  A team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will today submit to the Madras High Court their report of the second autopsy conducted on the body of Ilavarasan, a 21-year-old Dalit man whose mysterious death following a failed inter-caste marriage sparked a major controversy in Tamil Nadu.

• Tamil Nadu: Dalit man Ilavarasan laid to rest, family plans memorial

  Hundreds of people today defied prohibitory orders to join in the last journey of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, whose mysterious death following a failed inter-caste marriage sparked a major controversy in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old was laid to rest at a private vacant site in his native village of Nathan, where situation still remains tense.

• Tamil Nadu Dalit man Ilavarasan to be cremated today; prohibitory orders clamped

  Hundreds of people have defied prohibitory orders to join the funeral procession of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, whose mysterious death following a failed inter-caste marriage sparked a major controversy in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old was found dead on July 4 near a railway track in Dharmapuri district in the western part of the state.

• Tamil Nadu: Doctors conduct second autopsy on Dalit man's body

  Doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences are conducting a second autopsy on the body of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, who was found dead on July 4 in Dharmapuri in western Tamil Nadu. Yesterday, the Madras High Court ordered the second autopsy, adding that its order does not doubt or cast any aspersions on the first post mortem performed by ...

• Jayalalithaa appoints one-man commission to probe Dalit man's death

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today appointed a one-man commission to be headed by retired judge Justice S R Singaravelu to find out the truth in Ilavarasan's death. The Dalit man, who married a girl from the Vanniyar community, was found dead last week near a railway track in Dharmapuri in western Tamil Nadu.

• Tamil Nadu: Dead Dalit husband's family seeks second autopsy

  A second post-mortem report has been demanded by the family of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu. The first report had revealed the 21-year-old died of a head injury. He was found dead near a railway track on Thursday near his village in western Tamil Nadu.

• Tamil Nadu: Dead Dalit husband's family alleges murder; police sources claim suicide

  The post-mortem report of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu, reveals the 21-year-old died of a head injury. Police sources have said that the death is a case of suicide.