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India’s premier investigation agency has exonerated a Franciscan nun in a case that accused her of causing a 17-year student’s suicide by attempting to convert her in a southern state. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in its report, ruled out religious conversion as the cause of the January 2022 suicide by the student of Sacred Heart Higher Secon-dary School in Michaelpatti under Kumbakonam Diocese in Tamil Nadu. The federal agency informed the Ma-durai bench of Madras High Court on Sept. 18 that it had interrogated 141 individuals and scanned through some 265 documents in connection with the case. It found no substantiating evi-dence to support the allegation of religious conversion and urged the court to dismiss the charge, it added. The CBI, however, said that the girl may have taken the extreme step as she was made to do domestic chores in the school hostel. The girl’s Hindu parents alleged she was forced to commit suicide after nuns harassed her for not converting to Christianity. Tamil Nadu police disputed this, saying the girl had not made any such revelation either to the police or the magistrate who took her dying statement.
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