Sources have stated that since the morning of 24th June, when Swathi S was murdered at the Nungambakkam railway station in Chennai, the police seem to have surprisingly little information on the identity of the murderer where she was murdered at 6.30 am by a man who has approached her and whom she has argued with, that nobody on the platform has helped her, that the railways station has no CCTV cameras and the police has turned up two hours later, and that perhaps the man was a stalker.
Govindarajan, Swathi’s uncle has told the media on Sunday that she didn’t mingle much with men, but it’s heartbreaking that a defense of her ‘character’ should be needed at all apart from giving the police clues about who the culprit might have been, would it have made a difference if Swathi had been in a relationship, had not been in a relationship, stayed away from boys, or had several male friends?
Congress National Spokesperson, Khushbu Sundar, who has visited Swathi’s house, has also said that she was concerned about the media’s “speculation” about the motive behind the killing, and of Swathi’s character.
In the process of the discussion of the case, it has somehow become easy to blame women for the crimes committed against them because everyone has moral judgments to make about everything that women do, when their personal choices become more important than what has happened to them.
