Swathi's personality-She was of helping nature....She even cared for the ants...She did not want to expose her stalker as otherwise he would have been punished!
Her caring side was on display during deluge
Swathi waded through water to distribute food packets
A few minutes before she left for work on Friday, S. Swathi spotted a trail of ants in front of her apartment at Choolaimedu. “She paused for a minute and showed us the ants and said that they were going as a family and should not be disrupted,” said her sister S. Nithya, who is yet to overcome the shock of her sister's untimely death.
Describing her sister as sensitive and caring, she said, “During the Chennai floods in December, we waded through deep water to distribute food packets to nearby areas, which were severely affected.” She showed pictures that the family had taken during their volunteering efforts, where Swathi had played a key role.
According to the family, Swathi always left home at 6.30 a.m. and boarded the ladies compartment. “She always occupied the window seat,” said Nithya.
The family was upset the body had not been covered for a long time after the incident at the station. “So many trains would have passed by on both platforms and yet, no one came forward to cover the body up till a senior official arrived at 9 a,m.,” said Swathi’s uncle, K. Govindarajan. “There was a delay at each place with the formalities regarding post-mortem and finally, when Swathi’s body came home, her mother saw the body for less than half an hour,” he added.
The family denied theories about the possible involvement of a private cab driver, who allegedly had a spat with her. “We did have an issue with a cab driver who overcharged us during a temple visit recently. But the issue was escalated to the company and my father spoke to the grievance cell and sorted it out,” Nithya said. Swathi apparently was not involved in that incident.
Swathi did her schooling at Good Shepherd Matriculation Higher Secondary School and then joined Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering where she pursed a course in Computer Science. A company source said, “She joined Infosys in July 2014 at the Mysore campus for her training. She joined the Chennai office (Mahindra World City) in December 2014.” She was a systems engineer at Infosys, a place where, again, she will be missed dearly.
An Infosys official said that an ex-gratia amount was usually given to the kin of employees who had died in accidents, untoward incidents or due to illnesses.
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