Chennai: High drama prevailed at Kilpauk medical college hospital on Saturday as relatives staged a protest demanding severe action against the murderer of Aswini, a victim of stalking.
Aswini’s mother M. Sankari and her relatives who have been waiting at Kilpauk medical college hospital, where autopsy took place, staged a sudden protest before the mortuary building on hospital premises. The sobbing and whimpering relatives got angry when the police officers asked them to sign necessary papers to take Aswini’s body.
“Police should book Alagesan under severe sections and do justice to my daughter,” Sankari pleaded with the cops who were desperately trying to assuage the relatives. However, the protesting relatives yielded and agreed to accept Aswini’s body only after the police assured of stern actions against Alagesan.
Aswini was hacked to death by Alagesan near her college on Friday evening in K.K. Nagar. Although the police claimed the failed relationship was the possible cause of the murder, Aswini’s mother had refuted the claim.
At the same time, when Aswini’s body had been kept at her residence at Alappakkam for homage, the police had been recording Alagesan’s statement at Rajiv Gandhi government general hospital. “Aswini was taken to Porur graveyard and last rites were performed there,” a relative with tears said.
‘Had mob not attacked him, Alagesan would have killed self’
According to the police sources, Alagesan, who had been in Rajiv Gandhi government general hospital and getting treatment for injuries inflicted by onlookers, in his statement said that Aswini had started to avoid him on the advice of her mother and refused to talk.
“Alagesan also said that, had the crowd not attacked him, he would have too committed suicide at the spot,” the police said.
