Chennai: Victim's husband doesn’t buy police theory that youth killed her for mobile phone

 

Not convinced by the police theory and the suspect, P. Seshu, husband of Dr Sathya, who was doing PG at KMC,  has written a letter to the Chennai police seeking answers to many questions.

 

Police has said the suspect Debanath Harindam, residing in the same apartment building along with his doctor brother, had gained entry in the flat of Dr Sathya in Kilpauk and murdered her when she resisted his sexual assault attempt before leaving the scene with her mobile phone on last Thursday. She was staying with her friend Dr Sangeetha, another PG student, at the apartment. Dr Sangeetha was away when murder took place.

 

However Dr Seshu, who works as a block medical officer in Perambalur, said the murder could be a handiwork of a professional killer and there could have been more than one person involved in it.

 

After seeing the body of his wife, who was stabbed to death on her neck, Dr Seshu feels the attack appears to have done by a person who has some experience in medical profession as the stabbing was very precise. 

 

Though the police said they could not lift any fingerprints from the scene of crime, if one goes by the police version there should have many finger prints all over, says Dr Seshu says in his letter addressed to the deputy commissioner of police, Kilpauk. How can police prove the arrested was the real criminal without fingerprints?

 

Dr Seshu, who married Dr Sathya after a love affair seven years ago, asked why the police has not dug deep into the possible role of a third person in the murder. “The CCTV camera on the street was switched off at around 8 am and restarted at 5 pm,” he said while talking to this newspaper.  “I feel the police had not come out with the full story. The investigators visibly were in a hurry. They have not got all the facts,” he said.

 

All the evidences shown by the police against the arrested suspect are linked to the things that happened after the murder but police has not detected any evidence that links to the arrested man and the act of murder, he said further.

 

Why police snifer dog failed to detect the blood stained clothes believed to have been kept in the room of the arrested suspect?, he asked. Hinting at a totally new angle for the motive of the murder, Dr Seshu noted that that PG course his wife was doing could cost around Rs 2 crore if done in private. “Was anybody trying to get that seat?” he wondered.