After his elder daughter had hanged herself to death, Abdul Latheef, the father of Fathima Latheef has demanded a fair and independent probe to investigate the death of his daughter who died on Saturday in the premises of reputed and prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Madras. 

Addressing reporters on Tuesday, the father of the deceased daughter, while stressing to have an independent probe, had expressed his fears that the IIT authorities would possibly meddle the mobile phone of his daughter which contains her suicide note. On November 10, exactly one day after Fathima had killed herself, her sister Aysha and Kollam Mayor Rajendra Babu, who is the friend of Abdul Latheef and the guardian of Fathima Latheef while she studied in IIT, had reached Chennai whereas Abdul Latheef was traveling from Saudi Arabia, who later joined his younger daughter and Kollam Mayor.

Abdul Latheef had stated that his younger daughter Aysha had switched on the mobile phone of Fathima Latheef based on the request of the police after which they identified the death note of Fathima in which she accused a professor responsible for her death while the other set of note described the involvement of other two professors. Fathima's sister Aysha has said that the family was called on the police to visit the police station where they had the phone which was in switched off mode and cited that she saw the note on the phone's screensaver after unlocking the screen.

The father had asserted that he has all the evidence and records to expose that his daughter was allegedly harassed by the department for about a month. She had revealed the names of the professors in her suicide note and stated he will fight till his last breath to deliver justice for everyone who harassed his daughter, who was a class topper.

Abdul Latheef had revealed that his daughter had returned to Chennai from Kollam on October 8th, 2019 and one month later, the first-year postgraduate student had conveyed her mother that she would be switching off her phone by citing to prepare for semester examinations. He added that her phone went switched off from the next day after which Fathima's mother had reached out to the student staying in a nearby room to speak with her daughter. After that, the students in the hostel haven't responded to the calls from her mother following which she contacted the hostel warden who left us in shock after informing that Fathima had hanged herself to death. He claimed that Mayor of Kollam Rajendra Babu, who is in the rank of Deputy Speaker, visited the police station and he blamed the police department for the inaction despite the Mayor visited the station. 

The reports say that on Wednesday, the Assistant Commissioner of Police Kotturpuram said that the investigation has been ongoing and eleven witnesses connected to the case have been brought under severe interrogations where the FIR has been booked under Section 174. He stated that everyone concerned, including professors, would be taken for extensive investigations.