Victim's father and shopkeeper made to identify Swathi's murderer
CHENNAI: Setting the stage for the next step in the investigations in the Infosys employee S Swathi's murder case, an identification parade of the accused P Ramkumar was conducted in the Puzhal Central Prison today. The parade began at 10.30 am and lasted nearly an hour.
Swathi's father Santhana Gopalakrishnan and Sivakumar, a shopkeeper on the Nungambakkam railway station platform, were the two witnesses made to identify the accused. They were taken by the police to the central prison early in the morning for the identification parade.
Around 25 persons, along with the accused Ramkumar, was lined up for the parade. The entire process was conducted amidst tight security in the Puzhal central jail.
What is an identification parade?
It is a very important step in criminal case and often one of the main factors in the trial. Typically, five to ten persons who look similar to the accused will be made to stand in a line along with the accused. The eyewitnesses will be asked to identify the accused they had seen during the incident in the crime spot.
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Swathi's father, bookseller identify Ramkumar as techie's killer
CHENNAI: Eleven days after the dramatic arrest of P Ramkumar in the Swathi murder case, two witnesses -- Swathi's father and a bookseller on the Nungambakkam railway platform -- have identified him as the software engineer's assailant.
At an identification parade conducted in Puzhal prison on Tuesday, Swathi's father Santhana Goplakrishnan was first called in to identify the man who hacked his daughter, from the ten men who stood in a file. Gopalakrishnan identified the man standing fourth from the left, wearing a maroon colour shirt and black trousers, as the killer. It was Ramkumar.
Police said they included Gopalakrishnan as a witness as he had, during interrogation, said his daughter once showed him her staker. Sivakumar, a bookseller at the railway station, was called in as the other witness. He too identified as the assailant, Ramkumar who the prison officers had moved to the ninth place in the line of men, after the first witness left.
As per the instructions of the chief metropolitan magistrate, IX metropolitan magistrate Sankar presided over the identification parade held in the high security block of Puzhal prison- II.
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