Amidst the demand of Fathima Latheef's father Abdul Latheef and the protests of the student unions on the fair and independent investigation behind the death of IIT Madras student Fathima Latheef, the commissioner of Chennai Police has transferred the investigation to the Central Crime Branch on Thursday.

While speaking to the reporters after staging the inquiring in the premises of IIT Madras, where Fathima Latheef had committed suicide on November 9th, 2019 the Chennai city police commissioner A K Viswanathan has asserted that the probe has been transferred to the team of Central Crime Branch who will take the investigations to uncover the reason behind the suicide. 

The commissioner had stated that the special team will be headed by the DIG of Central Bureau of Investigation and the current joint commissioner of Central Crime Branch Eswaramoorthy and adding to him, former Assistant commissioner of CBI Prabakaran would be inducted in the team along with S Megalina, who is the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police for Crimes against women and children and she will be the investigating officer in the probe. 

The Police commissioner further indicated that the decision of placing senior officials in investigating the case was due to the sensitivity of the issue. While addressing the reporters on Tuesday, Fathima Latheef's father Abdul Latheef, by citing her suicide note, had alleged that she could have faced a series of harassment by her department. He stated that his younger daughter Aysha had unlocked the mobile phone which was recovered by the police department in which she found Fathima's suicide note where she exposed the names of the professors who, she accused of harassing her. He expressed his despair that the IIT authorities have allegedly been attempting to meddle the mobile phone which contains the suicide note through their influence by claiming that they might pressurize the police department to tamper the device.

The reports say that on November 8th, 2019 she lastly spoke with her mother and told her that she would be turning off the mobile phone by citing to prepare for her semester examinations and her mother tried to reach her friends as Fathima's phone remained switched off after which the family was contacted by the hostel warden who informed that Fathima had hanged herself to death the next day. The reason behind her death was not known until her mobile phone made a shocking revelation by carrying her suicide note accusing the professors of the Department of Humanities and Social Services for reportedly harassing her.