Nearly a year after the brutal murder of Infosys employee Swathi, at the Nungambakkam railway station in Chennai in broad daylight, a city court has accepted the report submitted by the police asking that the case be closed, as the only accused in the case is dead. The accused, Ramkumar, had killed himself in jail.
The IV Metropolitan Magistrate BC Gopinath accepted the report, and also issued an order to formally close the case.
An investigating officer in the case told The Times of India that they had submitted a closure report before the magistrate court in Egmore, with substantial evidence proving that Ramkumar’s death was a suicide.
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On 24 June 2016, Swathi, was brutally murdered, allegedly by the accused Ramkumar at the Nungambakkam railway station for rejecting his advances. It was also reported that he was stalking her for months, and her friends and family knew about it.
Ramkumar was arrested from his native town in Tirunelveli district on 1 July 2016, when he also tried to slit his throat. He was hospitalised immediately and his life was saved.
But he committed suicide in the Puzhal prison after biting a live wire on 19 September 2016.
Meanwhile, yet another controversy in underway over a new film based on the case.
On Saturday, the Chennai police Cyber Crime Bureau registered a case against a film maker Ramesh Selvan for making a movie on Swathi murder case without consent from Swathi’s family, also because the case was sub-judice.
Swathi’s father K Santhanagopalakrishnan had filed a complaint with the Director General of Police on 31 May, two days after the trailer of the movie was released.
We are unable to gauge the intention of producing such a movie, as the facts can be twisted particularly about my daughter. Since the case is sub-judice, production of such a film is not fair and illegal.Complaint
(This article was first published on The News Minute and has been republished with their permission.)
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