Chennai: In its inquiry report on the death by suicide of a minor girl in Ariyalur district in Tamil Nadu, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said it found many “glaring issues” which should be investigated by the authorities – including tampering of evidence – but remained largely silent on the allegations that the girl decided to end her life because she was forced to convert to Christianity.

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But activists denounce the report as ‘incomplete’. Pointing out that the NCPCR committee was visiting on a complaint about conversion, Henry Tiphagne, executive director of the People’s Watch movement, said that the report was conspicuously silent on this angle.

“It is a sad state of affairs. The complaint is about forced illegal conversion of children. The report does not discuss the findings of their enquiry vis-à-vis that. The report does not fully say who they met, who deposed before them. When the report says they were acting on a specific complaint, shouldn’t it also reveal the findings of the committee on that complaint?” he asks.

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