Kochi, Aug. 13 -- Days after a 23-year-old woman in Kerala's Kothamangalam died by suicide after blaming her boyfriend and his family of pressurising her to convert to his faith, her family on Tuesday demanded the probe to be handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

The mother of the deceased ay wrote to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and state police chief Ravada A Chandrasekhar requesting an NIA probe into the case citing her daughter's alleged torture by her boyfriend and his family to convert her to his faith before marrying her.

The 23-year-old woman of Christian faith, a TTC (Teacher Training Course) student in Kothamangalam, was found dead at her home on August 9. In a purported suicide note recovered by the polic...