Swathi's murderer arrested in Tirunelveli

The accused has been identified as Ramkumar of Sengottai.

The accused who killed Infosys employee S. Swathi at the Nungambakkam Railway Station in Chennai on June 24 has been arrested in Tirunelveli late on Friday night.

He has been identified as Ramkumar from Sengottai, Tirunelveli.

A couple of Swathi's friends told the investigators that she was aware that she was being stalked by the suspect, who finally killed her.

On Friday last, Swathi was waiting at platform number 2 of the railway station to board a train to work.

Sources at the railway station said a man approached her as she was waiting, and soon, an argument broke out between them. Subsequently he took out a sharp weapon and hacked her to death.

“Swathi was aware of the stalker but probably decided to ignore him and took no precautions. Since she informed her friends about the suspect, it is possible that she might have alerted her family as well. We are not sure whether the suspect stalked her to say something or it was a dry run to commit the offence,” a senior police officer said on Thursday.

Dismissing reports that the suspect was chased by a man soon after he killed Swathi, the officer said nobody made an attempt to chase or track his movements. “It is intriguing that even after five days nobody has made a call yet identifying the suspect. Maybe he has remained disconnected from social life or belongs to some other State,” he said.