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Infosys employee murder: Police clueless, seek help from Aadhar wing
Swathi murder: “The case may be handed over to the city police from the railway wing,” said a senior official.
Written by
Arun Janardhanan
Updated: June 27, 2016 7:42 pm
Candle Vigil for Infosys Employee Swathi. Express photo Three days after gruesome murder of a 24-year-old woman
Infosys employee at Chennai’s Nungambakkam railway station, police probing the case has not yet been able to identify the assailant. After the police retrieved two CCTV footages on Friday and Sunday from the area in which the suspected assailant was seen passing the area next to the railway station just before and after the murder, a passenger who witnessed the crime had also sent a photo of the accused to investigators which he took on the platform immediately after the murder.
A senior officer probing the case said the new evidence also confirms identity of the murderer but again it was shot from the back, when the assailant was rushing out of station premise after the murder.
“We are left with two CCTV footages and this latest photo sent by an eye witness in which face of the assailant is not visible. We have approached a Hyderabad-based firm seeking digital forensic help to get a clear image of the assailant’s face from CCTV footages,” said the officer.
Meantime, efforts to identify finger prints of the assailant went futile as the investigators could not find verified samples from records of Tamil Nadu police records. This has now forced the authorities to approach the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to trace the finger print from records of Aadhar cards, official sources said.
“The case may be handed over to the city police from the railway wing,” said a senior official.
chennai murder, infosys, infosys employee murder, infosys murder, swathi murder, chennai railway station murder, railway station murder He added that a friend of Swathi, who was taken in custody on Friday, was interrogated for two days. We have now released him on a condition that he would appear before the police whenever asked to. “He is not a suspect. But he told us that some 10 or 15 days ago Swathi had mentioned about someone who had been following her. But he has no other clue about the assailant. Swathi’s
Facebook page was also idle for last couple of days.
Her phone also went missing after the murder. We are now verifying her Call Detail Records (CDR) and Facebook, Mail accounts for further inputs on the identity of the assailant,” said the officer.
On Sunday, a group of passengers, software professionals and friends of Swathi assembled at the Nungambakkam railway station. Extending solidarity with her family, candles were lit at the spot where Swathi was murdered. “Killing her character is worse than killing her,” posters said.
They questioned why public did not attend to her body for more than one hour, why railway authorities did not have CCTV cameras on the platform, why railway staff and station master failed to alert the police immediately and why Chennai City Police Commissioner did not even visit the accident spot or briefed the public about what had happened.
“Many media reports are seemingly baseless, some are tarnishing her character. Had there been a transparent system through which the police brief the media and public about the status of the investigation, had the police had an active Twitter and Facebook accounts like in other cities, they could have publicised the CCTV footages and image of the assailant more effectively. We could see only half hearted efforts from the police. Circulation of CCTV footages among the public is now limited to few online groups and occasional telecasts in Television channels. Had there been an efficient information system, there wouldn’t have been any rumours too,” said one of the members.
As the pressure is mounting on city police, sleuths have arrested over 150 people in the city after Swathi’s murder under Goondas Act, which ensures imprisonment of one year for those who frequently commit crimes.
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