TN court shuts Indian's death case | Killed for love?

New Delhi: The Madurai bench of Madras High Court on Friday treated as shut the case of a 22-year-old man who died in Malaysia in January 2006.

The court dismissed the suo moto contempt proceedings against the Ministry or External Affairs and accepted the counter arguments made by it.

The First Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice V Ramasubramanian said the court accepted the External Affairs Ministry counter in the case and closed the contempt proceedings.

Suseendran Sethuraja, a biscuit factory worker, died in January 2007 in Malaysia but his body has been lying in a morgue in Kuala Lumpur since. His family is crying foul. They say Suseendran was in love with the factory owner’s daughter paid for it with his life.

The MEA says Suseendran committed suicide in Malaysia and his friends cremated the body.

The External Affairs Ministry received the death certificate and post-mortem reports from the Malaysian Government.

There was no iota of evidence to suggest he was murdered.