Chennai techie murder: Swathi's killer slits his throat as cops nab him

Chennai: Infosys techie Swathi's murder suspect, an engineering graduate, slit his throat when the police nabbed him at his residence near Shengottai in Tirunelveli district and would be unable to respond to police inquiry for two days, according to Dr Sithy Athiya Munavarah, dean of Tirunelveli medical college hospital.

Ram Kumar was apprehended on Friday in his native Tirunelveli district in south Tamil Nadu by police, which had been pulled up by the Madras HC earlier over its poor handling of the case.

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Kumar was staying near Swathi’s residence in Choolaimedu area here and had stalked her for months before allegedly murdering her using a sickle at the Nungambakkam railway station on June 24, they said.

Police late on Friday night announced the arrest of the murder suspect, a native of Shencottah in Tirunelveli district. The motive of the killing was being investigated, police said.

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Swathi, employed with software giant Infosys, was hacked to death around 6.30 am on June 24 while waiting to board a train to her workplace on the city outskirts.

Pulling up the police for leaving her body for nearly two hours on the platform, the Madras High Court had warned of suo motu intervention if there was slackness in the probe. The case was transferred to the city police which formed several special teams .

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With no CCTV camera in the railway station, police faced a tough job in obtaining clues and managed to get visuals of a man, suspected to be the assailant, from a CCTV installed at a house. They had also released the footage and also a sketch of the suspect.