Overview
- On August 14, Rashtrapati Bhavan sent the parents’ emails to West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and asked the family to liaise with the President’s aide for updates.
- The victim’s father wrote three messages to President Droupadi Murmu between August 10 and 12, warning of “extreme torture and existential threat” and seeking intervention.
- The parents report receiving an email assuring support and promising that the President’s personal assistant will contact them shortly.
- This marks the first formal response after earlier appeals to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah went unanswered.
- Meanwhile, the CBI-led investigation into the rape, murder, alleged evidence tampering and a wider conspiracy continues alongside court appeals and scrutiny of police conduct.