Chennai: A day after the report of a fatal accident involving a police vehicle and a moped left both the two-wheeler riders dead, the kin of one of the deceased refused to accept the body following post-mortem on Monday in the morgue at the
Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH). The kin are demanding stringent action against the driver of the police truck. Senior police officials and AIADMK ex-MLA Neelakandan intervened and pacified the kin and subsequently Solomon’s body was handed over for the last rites that were carried out later in the city.
The city police have also booked over 100 people in two separate cases for staging a road roko besides damaging the MTC buses in that stretch. Six of them were arrested for vandalising public property.
On Sunday afternoon, the student duo of S. Ram Kumar, and D. Solomon, both of Class XI and residents of Otteri, were returning after a football game at a ground on Anderson Road, at around 2.30 pm when they were knocked down by the police truck driven by Ezhumalai, a Tamil Nadu Special Police (TSP) personnel.
Ram Kumar died on the spot while Solomon succumbed to injuries later in the RGGGH. The incident sparked a flash protest by onlookers and locals of the area who were convinced that the city police would only help their colleague and would eventually help the driver escape.
The city police, on the contrary, booked Ezhumalai under sections 227, 338 and 304 (a) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) while and the 14th Metropolitan Court enlarged him bail on Monday morning.
Ram Kumar’s mother Kavitha is a widow who earns her livelihood working at an Amma Unavagam while Solomon’s father David quit working in the computer section of Volleyball Federation of India and Tamil Nadu Volleyball Federation to become an auto driver.
