The man D Sathish (23) had been harassing Sathya, a BSc student at Jain College in T Nagar, for a whole year according to the police.\u00a0 Sathish\u2019s constant harassment had even led to her filing complaints against him on two occasions, at the Mambalam and St Thomas Mount police stations. Despite this, there was no police action. Instead, as both Sathya and Sathish’s parents were in the police force, a \u2018compromise\u2019 was reached.<\/p>\n
Sathish on that fateful day pushed her in front of an oncoming train at the St Thomas Mount Railway Station in Chennai. According to police sources, the murderer D Sathish (23) had been harassing Sathya, a BSc student at Jain College in T Nagar, for a whole year.<\/p>\n
Sathish is the son of a retired Special Sub Inspector (SSI), who worked at the Adambakkam police station. Sathya\u2019s mother is a Head Constable at the same police station. Both Sathya and Sathish lived in the same area in Guindy, where they first became acquainted. The police\u2019s \u2018compromise\u2019, however, had done nothing to put a stop to Sathish\u2019s harassment of Sathya. Sources tell TNM that Sathish had instead taken to stalking Sathya wherever she went.<\/p>\n
Neighbors described Sathya as a polite, friendly young woman. Everyone in the quarters usually identified her house as \u2018Sathya\u2019s house\u2019, they said. One woman who wanted to remain anonymous said, \u201cIf someone is saying no, a person should leave them alone. But this boy\u2019s thought was \u2018if I can\u2019t have her, no one can. Was she born for him?\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Sathya\u2019s classmate, who did not want to be identified, even after a complaint was filed against him Sathish had turned up at her college just a month ago and created a disturbance. \u201cI used to take her to the station on my bike. Sathish would be waiting outside the bike mechanic shop.<\/p>\n
One day, I phoned and asked her father to come. There was an argument, and her father yelled at him. This was two months back. The family gave a complaint. But about a month ago, Sathish came to the college and created a scene. A few other boys and I had to intervene and make him leave, but he made Sathya say she loves him in front of everyone.\u00a0 \u201dI would have brought her back home yesterday too, I usually do. But I couldn\u2019t and this happened. All our classmates are grieving back in college,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Sathish tracked her down to the St Thomas Mount Railway Station and got into an argument with her, before fatally shoving her onto the railway track as a train approached. Sathya\u2019s body came under the wheels and she died on the spot.<\/p>\n
Immediately after, Sathish fled the station, an eyewitness says. The Railway Police later arrived at the scene of the murder and retrieved Sathya\u2019s body from the tracks. The body was then sent for a post-mortem examination. As part of the probe into the case, four teams have been formed under the Railway Police, and three under the St Thomas Mount Commissioner of Law and Order.<\/p>\n
The police also retrieved the CCTV footage from the station and nearby areas to ascertain the identity of the accused. Sathish was eventually arrested in the early hours of Friday. He was found in Thoraipakkam and has been taken to the Mambalam police station for further questioning. Tragically, a day after his daughter\u2019s murder, Sathya\u2019s father Manikkam\u00a0died due to cardiac arrest around 3 am on Friday.<\/p>\n
Sathya\u2019s murder brings up many concerns, one of the most important being that such a tragedy could have been averted if only her complaints had not been disregarded in the first place. Besides, this is also not the first time that crimes like Sathya\u2019s murder have occurred at a railway station in Chennai.<\/p>\n
Her death is similar to the 2016 murder of 24-year-old Swathi, an Infosys employee who was brutally hacked to death at the Nungambakkam Railway Station in Chennai. Again, only last year, Madras Christian College (MCC) student Swetha was stabbed and killed at the Tambaram Railway Station. In both cases, the killers were men. In Swetha\u2019s case, she had known the murderer Ramachandran for three years. In a chilling similarity to Sathya\u2019s murder, Ramachandran had also gotten into an argument with Swetha, before he stabbed her in a fit of rage.<\/p>\n
Kasturi Shankar, the actor wrote, “Chennai Tragedy: Hearing of Satya’s gruesome murder, her dad Manikkam got a fatal heart attack. Sathya Priya’s mother is the Head constable at Adambakkam Police Station, Sathish’s father used to be Special Sub Inspector at the same station.”<\/p>\n
\nChennai Tragedy: Hearing of Satya's gruesome murder, her dad Manikkam got a fatal heart attack.
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