Bloodstains on Ramkumar’s shirt Swathi’s: DNA test

Chennai: The bloodstains on Swathi murder accused Ramkumar's shirt are that of the victim's, a DNA test report has said.
Investigators said this would be crucial to the prosecution's case build-up. "The circumstantial and scientific pieces of evidence are going to play a vital role during trial," an officer said. "The report will be submitted in the metropolitan magistrate court in Egmore in a couple of days by forensic officials," he said, refusing to divulge more details.
Police personnel collected blood samples from Ramkumar's shirt which they recovered from his room at a mansion in the city. Officers said he had attempted to wash the stains off the cloth. The machete used by the accused was recovered from a railway track. Blood samples collected from the track was apparently from the machete, officers said. Police and forensic teams had collected blood samples from Nungambakkam station, the crime scene.
Swathi, a 24-year-old Infosys engineer, was murdered at Nungambakkam railway station on June 24, when she was waiting to board and EMU train to Chengalpet at 6.40am. Ramkumar was arrested on July 1 from his house at T Meenakshi Puram in Sengottai, Tirunelveli. He was remanded to judicial custody. Police said Ramkumar attempted to end his life by slitting his throat when a police team tried to nab him in a midnight swoop.
Ramkumar's father Paramasivan, a coolie, said the injuries on the neck of his son were inflicted by police personnel who nabbed him.
Ramkumar was now lodged in the Puzhal prison. He was housed in the hospital block in Prison-II and prison doctors were taking care of him as per court orders. Doctors had removed his sutures recently after the wounds healed.
The magistrate, Gopinath, had extended his remand till August 1 through videoconferencing on Monday. Earlier, police personnel had secured a three-day custody of the accused to question him. Police had taken him to A S Mansion on Saurashtra Nagar eight street, where he stayed, and gathered evidence.
To negate defence-side queries in court in future, we have video-graphed the entire operation and submitted the clips in court. Ramkumar had pleaded innocence in court.