In Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, a backward caste student, Lavanya was being pressured to convert to Christian for two years. He was being tortured for not obeying. Ultimately he committed suicide by drinking toilet cleaner. There is also a video of his statement before death, but instead of taking action against the accused, the police took his parents into custody. There is silence on this even in political circles.

Dr. Anand Patil
Tamil Nadu is again in the news due to the inhuman acts of the missionary who called the converts. 17-year-old M. Lavanya, a class 12 student at the government-aided Christian missionary school ‘Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School’ at Tirukattupalli in Thanjavur district, finally succumbed to constant harassment and exploitation after the school rejected the proposed conversion. Committed suicide by drinking toilet cleaner.

constant pressure to convert, harassment
Lavanya was staying at St Michael’s Girls Hostel near the school for the last five years. According to sources, the hostel warden Sahai Mary (age 60-62) was continuously pressurizing Lavanya to convert. After completely rejecting the offer of conversion, Lavanya had to go through hellish pain. Her Pongal (Makar Sankranti) holidays were canceled and she was forced to work cleaning school toilets, cooking food, washing dishes, etc. According to the information received, the missionary thought that after breaking the persecution, Lavanya would eventually embrace Christianity, but in despair, he thought it better to die after consuming the toilet cleaner used in the school. He died on 19 January.

Lavanya was a student of very sharp intelligence. He got 488 out of 500 marks in matriculation due to his intellect and hard work. It is being told that in view of his intellect, he was being offered to convert for two years and full further education for free and facilities was being offered, but he did not consider his faith for sale and embraced death. Lavanya was a resident of Vadugapalyam village in Tirumanur block of Ariyalur district in Tamil Nadu. Lavanya’s father Muruganandam is a very poor person and has been a cardholder of DMK since 2012.

Stalin government silent
This incident is also sending a message to the public that DMK has returned to power on the strength of these missionary minorities, so it is meaningless to expect any kind of reaction from its side. It is also true that till now there has been no response from the DMK government.

The state of Tamil Nadu is badly entangled in the witchcraft of missionaries. The families of the Hindu card holders of DMK are also finding it difficult to escape the clutches of the missionary and the family of the deceased girl has not been taken care of till now, far from compensation and prompt action from the Stalin government. Due to this, fierce anger is being seen among DMK supporters that the hard work of poor Hindu workers is also involved in forming this government, but their life in a government dependent on minority appeasement remains like a mud. Lavanya belonged to the Moopanar community, a backward caste of Tamil Nadu, but there is silence on his suicide, other than the Hindu organization of Tamil Nadu and the BJP. The planned murder of Lavanya by the missionary is an accurate analysis of the character of the selected protesters.

Instead of taking action against the accused, the parents were in custody
In a video recorded before her death, Lavanya recounts the entire incident, exposing her attempts at conversion and torture by Raquel Meri (ages 40-45). It is also clear in the same video that Lavanya’s parents were offered to convert to Christianity two years ago. There was fierce opposition from the family on this. It has also been learned from the family that after refusing to convert, Lavanya had to face untimely harassment and harassment in the hostel. The missionary’s efforts to convert the girl to Yenken had been going on for two years. The missionary was fully aware of the girl’s financial and family situation. Due to the dire situation, the girl had kept up the courage to study even after facing all the harassment and harassment, but she was finally defeated in the face of humiliation and harassment.

Thanjavur Superintendent of Police Priya Gandhapuneni had earlier talked about taking the information of the video recorder and completely denied the aspect of conversion, but on the directions of the court, it has now been confirmed that the statement recorded before the girl’s death should be investigated. The basis is being built. The girl’s father is demanding a CB-CID probe into the incident. In such a situation, it has to be seen whether the investigation of this incident is done by the central agency.

According to sources, instead of arresting Raquel Meri by the police on the basis of the statement given in the video, the parents of the deceased girl were taken into custody. The video statement recorder Muttuvel, who is incidentally the Vishva Hindu Parishad’s Ariyalur district secretary, had been insisted by the Tamil Nadu police to arrest him as well, but the case has taken a different turn following the directions of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. Thanjavur Superintendent of Police Priya Gandhapuneni had earlier talked about taking the information of the video recorder and completely denied the aspect of conversion, but on the directions of the court, it has now been confirmed that the statement recorded before the girl’s death should be investigated. The basis is being built. The girl’s father is demanding a CB-CID probe into the incident. In such a situation, it has to be seen whether the investigation of this incident is done by the central agency.

Hostel became the center of conversion
According to information received from local sources, a year ago in the same school, another girl named Ilkiya had tried to commit suicide by consuming similar poison. That girl was also being forced to convert in the same way. Within the walls of the missionary schools, there would be many such ilakkiya-lavanyas, who would be forced to suffocate to convert or die.

A student (on condition of anonymity) who suffered mental torture by a missionary at the Central University in Tamil Nadu, says that the hostels have become centers of conversion. The missionary keeps a close watch on the sick, poor, divorced, backward caste students. Complaints can be made to the authorities, but after getting the complaint, a situation of various tortures arises. Therefore, the students suffer the pain of conversion with remorse. She explains that the majority of the people who live in the neighborhood with her are crypto-Christians.

The exploitation of Article 30 of the Indian Constitution has spread a vast network of Christian broadcasting institutions. Such educational institutions have become the most preferable places for conversion and the conversion mission is going on with great speed. It is clear that ‘religion’ indicative schools-colleges are affiliated to missionaries in some way or the other and are big centers of conversion.

It is clear that the missionaries have only two options for the Hindu students – convert, otherwise give their lives by being tortured – like Lavanya! No one can even point a finger at the anarchy of minorities in the name of secularism. One who points fingers at such anarchy is called ‘communal’. News of forced and conspiratorial conversions in Tamil Nadu keep appearing in the new media occasionally and sporadically, but often such incidents do not even find a place in the mainstream mass media. There is also the danger of being called ‘communal’ when it comes to conversion.