'Saw Swathi, fell in love, stalked her,' says murder accused Ramkumar

Chennai: The lone suspect Ramkumar, who has been arrested in the Infosys employee Swathi's murder case, revealed that he had fallen in love with her at first sight in September 2015 when he moved into the city. The revelation came during custodial interrogation ordered by a metropolitan magistrate court. Ramkumar's agenda in relocating to the city was primarily for tuition to clear his B.E arrears subjects and his love for the silver screen. Sources said Ramkumar left the city following the December deluge and came back in April.

"Ramkumar would be waiting for Swathi to pass his mansion. He would be there waiting to have a glimpse of her every day. He had also taken her pictures on his mobile from a distance. During last year's stint in the city, Ramkumar was also engaged in looking out for opportunities in Kollywood and he had kept his love for Swathi to himself. He came back with the sole agenda this time of befriending Swathi, in which he failed miserably," an official privy to the investigation told DC.

In the course of the interrogation the fact tumbled out that Swathi used to visit a Perumal temple near the mansion where Ramkumar was staying, which it made it easy for him to stalk her in the temple. It was in the temple that Ramkumar reportedly first expressed his love to Swathi and she replied with a stinging slap, after which a wordy altercation ensued. After that incident, Ramkumar stepped up his stalking, hounding her on her way to work, to the temple and to her home.

Ramkumar approached her again and the duo had a lengthy altercation near an eatery selling Idiyappam in Choolaimedu when passersby had intervened. It is during this altercation that the deceased had verbally abused Ramkumar, which angered him. After this incident, she had been taking the help of her father to get down in the Nungambakkam Railway Station until the day she was assailed. After a brief hiatus, he came back to the city on June 20 and was back to his stalking ways. However, the cops refused to divulge the information as to whether Ramkumar had confessed to the crime and whether he used social networking sites.