Overview
- Family members and Hindu groups staged a street protest Friday in Tonk, demanding arrests in the case and compensation for the boy’s relatives.
- Police said a case has been registered against eight people, including the girl, her parents and a school teacher, though no arrests have been made.
- An FIR under Section 306, the law used for abetment of suicide, has been filed as officers examine call logs, messages and other digital data.
- The 17-year-old was found hanging in his rented room Thursday morning after he did not open the door, and police reported no suicide note.
- Preliminary inquiry links the case to a relationship dispute and mental distress, while the family alleges the girl and her family pressured him to convert to Islam.