Swathi case: Cops on fast track to get charge sheet ready
Police interrogated Ramkumar for three days from Wednesday in their custody, at the end of which the police claimed he had confessed the crime.
Chennai: While city police investigators are doing their best to get the charge sheet ready before this month end against the Infosys techie Swathi murder suspect P Ramkumar, the prisoner is undergoing counselling sessions at Puzhal jail after the stitches on his neck, sustained in a suicide attempt prior to his arrest were removed on Saturday evening, according to sources.
“Our aim is to file the charge sheet as soon as possible. We are trying to do it by the month-end. We are working towards that,” said a police official who is part of the probe team which arrested Ramkumar for the June 24 murder at the Nungambakkam railway station.
After the victim’s father and a shopkeeper from Nungambakkam railway station identified the suspect during an ID parade last Tuesday inside the jail, the police interrogated Ramkumar for three days from Wednesday in their custody, at the end of which the police claimed he had confessed the crime.
Ramkumar was sent back to jail on Friday evening. On Saturday, a medical team present in the jail campus removed the stitches on his neck. When he was arrested he had allegedly tried to slash his neck using a blade to kill himself after police surrounded his house in Tirunelveli on the night of July 1.
He was then taken to Tirunelveli government hospital and by June 3 night he was admitted to Royapettah GH, from where he was sent to Puzhal prison, where the identification parade was carried out on July 12.