Madras High Court directs TN govt to preserve Ramkumar's body till September end

Justice N Kirubakaran of the Madras High late Friday night has asked the Tamil Nadu state government to preserve Ramkumars body. Ramkumars father Paramasivam will be moving the Supreme Court to get a doctor of their choice for the post-mortem.

On Thursday, Sep 22, Justice N Kirubakaran had passed an order that the postmortem should be conducted befor September 27, and allowed a fifth doctor from AIIMS to do the postmortem, but he had rejected the fathers plea to have a doctor of his choice.

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Ramkumar, the main suspect in the murder of Swati, a techie, at the Nungambakkam railway station, is alleged to have bitten a live wire and committed suicide. But Ramkumars family and lawyer have been crying that there has been a foul play and have been demanding a monitored postmortem to be conducted on the body.

Justice N Kirubakaran who has asked the state government to preserve the body till September 30 and said that the postmortem has to be done by October 1. This order was passed by the honourable judge at around 10pm on Friday at his chambers.

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The family had moved the Madras high court on September 19, a day after Ramkumars alleged suicide. Judge TS Sivaganam rejected the fathers plea after which the family filed another petition and this time the case was heard by a two judge bench and this was further transferred to a third judge due to difference of opinion. The family has been asking that the postmortem be conducted in the presence of Sampath Kumar, the vice-principal of Ramachandra private medical college.

Ramkumar died on September 18, after bitting a live wire in the Puzhal jail where he was a prisoner.