Chennai: The father of the college girl, who was killed at the St Thomas Mount railway station on Thursday by a stalker, suffered a heart attack and passed away, multiplying the grief of head constable Ramalakshmi’s family as the bodies of the daughter and father were taken to the house in the same hearse after post mortem.
While the alleged killer, Sathish, who had fled the railway platform after pushing Sathya before a train that was chugging into the suburban station, was caught from his hideout at Thoraipakkam in Chennai in the early hours by a police team, the girl’s father Manickam, a driver, could not take the news of his daughter's demise and collapsed in his car in front of his house on Thursday night.
Though he was rushed to a private hospital, he passed away on the way and his body was taken to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, where Sathya’s body was also kept after post mortem.
When Chennai Police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal visited the house, Ramalakshmi’ wails drew tears from the eyes of all the mourners who had gathered there adding more poignancy to the situation. Later the bodies were cremated at a funeral ground in Palavanthangal.
Sathya was the first child of the couple, Manickam and Ramlakshmi, who have two younger daughters, one studying in Class ten and the other three years old. Ramalakshmi is said to be not doing well and had been on a long sick leave till last week. She has already applied for more leave from October 18.
The arrested Sathish, son of a retired police sub-inspector, was being interrogated by the police in an undisclosed place. He had been stalking Sathya for a long time and was warned twice by the police after the girl’s family had filed a complaint about his persistent harassment.
Both the families had lived in the same police quarters when Sathish's father was in service and knew each other.
On Thursday he had followed the girl to the railway station, where she had gone to take a train to Mambalam to reach her college in T Nagar, and pushed her onto the track. The wheels of the EMU had decapitated the girl instantly.
