In the wake of delivering justice to her daughter, Abdul Latheef, the father of deceased IIT student Fathima Latheef had tabled his petition to the Director-General of Police, Tamil Nadu on Friday in which he urged the Chief Executive of Tamil Nadu police to conduct fair investigations and swift actions against the accused who were the reason behind the death of his daughter.

Upon concluding his meet with the DGP, Abdul Latheef had addressed the reporters regarding his petition where he demanded the explanation of his daughter's death by citing the suicide note of Fathima Latheef in which she accused and held IIT professor Sudharsan Padmanabhan as responsible for her death.

He further stated that the incident doesn't possess to be a suicide and added that his daughter had a practice of writing a letter in whatever she does and so she had mentioned the names in her suicide note before hanging herself to death. He claimed that the police has failed to record her note while filing FIR. He cited that his daughter was going through series and extreme pressure by her department and she had conveyed about the tortures she faced every day through the phone. 

While speaking about the suicide of her daughter, he claimed that there was no hanging rope in her room and the management hadn't sealed her hostel room that shows that it was not suicide. He expressed that no other students would face the pressure like how Fathima had faced and demanded that whoever committed the crime must be brought before justice. He asserted the assurance of the DGP on detaining the perpetrators and expressed his belief in the Tamil Nadu government and the police department.

On November 9th, Fathima Latheef, a native of Kerala who was pursuing her first-year postgraduate course in Humanities and Social Services had allegedly committed suicide in the premises of the institute and while it was initially told that she could have hanged herself by citing low marks in the examinations, her suicide note that was in her mobile phone had revealed that she could have been harassed by her department and by the professors which have now ignited huge protests to demand action against the professors whom she had referred in her suicide note.