Chennai techie murder: Ramkumar's father claims cops cut his son's throat
Meenakshipuram/Chennai: “My son is innocent…We are being targeted just because we are Dalits”, said Paramasivam, the father of techie Swathi murder accused Ramkumar, hitting out at the police investigating the June 24 slaying on the Nungambakkam railway platform. Going a step further, he accused the police of cutting his son’s throat “to prevent him from speaking out”.
Speaking to reporters at his hometown T Meenakshipuram in Tirunelveli district, Paramasivam said his son had come home from Chennai “as usual on Saturday (June 25) night” and was asleep in his usual place behind the house when two policemen knocked on the door late night (July 1).
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“They asked for Muthukumar. My daughter said there was no Muthukumar…obviously it was a case of mistaken identity”, said the father, who works in the BSNL office at Tenkasi. “The police cut his throat; how could he have made any confessional statement?” he quipped when a reporter asked about his son reportedly admitting to killing Swathi when the police questioned him at the Tirunelveli hospital.
The father of Ramkumar, suspect in techie Swathi murder case, on Thursday said his son was in no way connected to the incident. Recalling the events of July 1 late night, when the police knocked on the doors looking for his son but asking for ‘some Muthukumar’, Paramasivam said the family told the cops that Ramkumar was sleeping in his usual place behind the house and had been on his usual routine since arriving from Chennai on Saturday (June 25). "And after that, when we went looking for my boy, I found him on the ground with his head on a policeman's lap. He was bleeding from the throat and I cried out, ‘if he is dead, give me his body’. And then I fainted”, Paramasivam told reporters at Meenakshipuram. “They (police) thereafter clicked pictures of my son bleeding and sent them out on Whatsup (to make it appear as a suicide bid). My son is innocent; he could not have committed the murder.
Arriving at his native village from Chennai, Paramasivam, working in Tenkasi BSNL, said he did not appoint any lawyer earlier to argue his son's case. The bail petition moved by advocate Krishnamurthy was not known to him. He did not talk to me or any of my family members about taking up my son's case,' he said.
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Claiming that his son is completely innocent and in no way connected to the murder, he said his son came home not to hide himself from police but to get money for his expenses. 'How could a person behave so normal if he had committed a murder,’ he questioned.
“I believe that my son was arrested on misidentification. As the police were in great pressure from court, they fixed my son as the accused,” said Paramasivam. Shengottai police led by its inspector, Balamurugan, Tirunelveli police superintendent, Vikraman, said doubts and allegations like the one raked up by Paramasivam are quite common in sensational cases like that of Swathi murder.
“We acted with great sincerity and helped Chennai police nab the suspect in the case. I have nothing more to comment as it is being investigated by Chennai police,” he said.
