Ilavarasan

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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.

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  Murdered for Talking to Upper Caste Friend? Engineer Found Dead on Railway Track

  An engineer belonging to the Dalit community was found dead on a railway track in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening.

• 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.