1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:05,000 IIT-M student Fatima died because of her professor, Sudarshan Pathmanabhan... 2 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 ...says Fatima's mother to 24 News. 3 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:13,900 ...says her daughter was being maltreated by prof S.P. for making an appeal against her internal marks... 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,800 Says her daughter never had the heart to kill herself... 5 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:21,500 ...says that she was mishandled and maltreated... 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:41,000 ...... 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,400 My daughter.. 8 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,500 ...went to IIT with a lot of enthusiasm... 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,600 ...she was very happy for the first few days... 10 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:56,500 ...I had asked her to come home during the Bakr-Eid holidays... 11 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:06,500 ...she said, "No ma I can't, I've exams here.. I might not be able to study if I come home.. so let me stay here"... 12 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:15,400 ...but later before the Pooja holidays, she'd cry calling us... saying she wanted to come home... 13 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:19,200 ...we booked her ticket immediately and brought her home... 14 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:33,100 ...We were all so close together so I imagined she was homesick and she missed us... 15 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,900 ...but she was still very gloomy even after having visited us... 16 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,200 ...I knew my daughter was unhappy... 17 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:45,100 ...but she didn't reveal anything to me... 18 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:52,000 ...I didn't want to send my daughter away from me... I didn't want to... 19 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:57,700 ...but I didn't want to stand against her dreams...so I let her go... 20 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,800 And they erased her... 21 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:07,900 ...if she had only called us... we'd have brought her back the next moment... 22 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,600 ...they abused my daughter that much... 23 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:21,300 ...the students who usually used to go with her for dinner wasn't there with her that day... 24 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,900 ...she suffered a lot of torture... 25 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,500 ...she did tell me about S.P... 26 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:33,700 ...she told me he made many students cry...but she never told me anything about her...she hid it... 27 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,600 ...she said "Ma, he has made many students break and cry during the presentation on Logic"... 28 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:51,200 ...I asked her to stay for another day... but she insisted she had to go because she had her presentation... 29 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:58,000 ...I asked a friend in her group about her presentation...he said she did it well - she was good... 30 00:02:58,100 --> 00:03:01,900 ...like I said, she did mention prof SP's name several times... 31 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 ...I really don't know what they did to her... 32 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:19,300 ...I used to ask her about her teachers...she always said they were okay...I know she adjusts... 33 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:24,000 ...during the initial days, she would be busy in the library and she wouldn't even pick her phone... 34 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:27,900 ...but later on my daughter was calling me frequently... 35 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 ...but she never revealed anything to me... 36 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:38,000 ...she didn't tell because she thought I'd be worried..because her father was abroad and I lived by myself... 37 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:42,900 ...even if I call her after ten minutes she'd keeping asking me whether Ma was fine.. whether Ma was fine... 38 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,800 ...but she never told me anything about her... 39 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:50,700 ...I'm unable to bear this... 40 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,500 ...there should never be another Fatima... 41 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:01,100 ...I'd seen incidents in the past and I know how agonized those mothers were... 42 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,900 ...and I used to pray this never happens to anyone anymore... 43 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,900 ...and it happened to me... 44 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 ...my daughter's dreams... 45 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:14,000 ...leave aside the dreams...I'd be sufficient with just my daughter.... 46 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,000 ...but they didn't give her back to me... 47 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:22,100 ...my daughter wore churidar pants with elastic...she didn't know how to tie laces... 48 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:31,100 ...my daughter didn't even know how to tie a lace properly...she didn't even know how to tie her hair... 49 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:36,000 ...she just wanted to study... 50 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:40,900 ...and now I'm seeing her like this (hanging from a rope)... 51 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,800 .... 52 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:51,800 ...whether it's her classmates or her teachers...everyone behind this should be brought infront of the law... 53 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:58,900 ...nobody should walk free...this is all I want... 54 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,000 ...my daughter is gone...but there should never be another Fatima... 55 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:09,800 ...she was passionate about serving the society...the books she read from grade 8... 56 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:20,000 ...this was the book [World Civilizations] she ordered for her next sem... 57 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:24,000 ...she asked me that very evening if I had received it... 58 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:27,000 ...she asked me to open and check it...I said let Chakku come home... 59 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:30,300 ...she said no Ma, check it... 60 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:37,700 ...then i called her at 10:15 and she said she had sem exams and she had to study... 61 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,200 ...that was the last call i had from her... 62 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:44,100 ...she prefers not to take calls while she studies... 63 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:56,300 ...but they erased her...in every way...they broke her... 64 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,400 What did she tell you about Sudarshan Padmanabhan? 65 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:09,100 She tells me about all her teachers 66 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:18,600 ...she mentioned SP along with them while she was talking about the presentation on Logic... 67 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:23,100 ...she said he made other students cry among other things... 68 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:30,900 ...but she said nothing about her.. I know she won't say...she worries about her Ma getting hurt...my daughter won't say... 69 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,800 ...she won't say thinking it will hurt me... she didn't say... she didn't... 70 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:42,600 ...she was gloomy when I called her...she'd say she wanted to come home... 71 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:44,800 ...but she'd also say she had her exams... 72 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:54,500 ...how could she have studied...her words say she was in pain... 73 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:07,200 ...she wanted to study there...she wanted to pursue...but she was also suffering... she had too many conflicts to overcome that day... 74 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:12,100 ...she didn't call her mother and ask us to pick her up... 75 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:19,000 ...she was fighting it... 76 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:22,300 ...we only came to know when she was gone... 77 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,900 ...everything is there in her phone...all proof... 78 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:37,600 ...we won't let anyone abscond...we are determined to go to any lengths for justice... 79 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:43,000 ...nothing will go unrevealed...there should never be another Fatima... 80 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:47,900 ...My daughter was determined about getting into IIT.. 81 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:54,800 ...the day she went to TVM for coaching, it was raining heavily and trains were called off... 82 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:57,700 ...and I asked her to leave it and let it go... 83 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:05,600 ...but she said Ma you can't stand in the way of my future... 84 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:10,500 ...she was adamant... 85 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:20,000 ...when she finally joined, we went and introduced her to her hostel, cleaned her premises... 86 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:24,900 ...all four of us were weeping while returning back, including her father... 87 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:32,200 ...but she didn't... my daughter boldly stood there with her files...fixated on her aims... 88 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,500 ...it was that daughter that they brought back dead...