The Chennai police have apprehended the suspect who killed a girl student by pushing her in front the train. The accused was absconding and he was arrested a day after killing her. The incident had startled the state and special teams were formed immediately to nab the assailant. The girl student was killed in a broad daylight in a suburban station. 

The girl, identified as 20-year-old Sathya Priya, was killed after being pushed in front of a moving train at St Thomas Mount railway station. She was standing with her friends when a stalker, identified as Sathish, killed her. Sathya Priya was a sophomore at a private college while 23-year-old Sathish was harassing her. The preliminary reports found that Sathish was known to Sathya Priya as both hail from the same area in Guindy. 

Sathya Priya had approached the police and lodged complaints against Sathish for harassing her. However, no proper actions were taken. On October 13, Sathya Priya was waiting for the train with her friends when Sathish came to the station. He approached her and there was a heated argument between them after which Sathish pushed her in front of the train that was approaching the station. 

Sathya Priya died on the spot and the railway police arrived at the spot and retrieved Sathya's body from the tracks and sent for postmortem. After committing the crime, Sathish fled the spot and a probe was launched into the death. A total of seven teams- four teams under the Railway police and three teams under the St Thomas Mount police were formed to trace and arrest Sathish. 

After an intense manhunt, Sathish was located at Thoraipakkam and he was arrested during the wee hours of Friday - October 14. He was brought to Mambalam police station for further inquiry as the developments from the incident were closely watched across the state. He will later be taken into judicial custody for further investigations. 

Notably, both the families of accused and victim were into law enforcement. While Sathish is the son of a retired Special Sub-Inspector from Adambakkam police station, Sathya Priya's mother is a head-constable at the same police station. Sathish had incessantly harassed Sathya Priya and she had filed complaints on two occasions in Mambalam and St Thomas Mount Police stations. 

However, no action was taken and it has been reported that both the families have reached to a comprise in the past only to pave the way for further harassments as Sathish didn't stop his awful conduct with Sathya Priya. He was following Sathya Priya almost every time and likewise, he came to St Thomas Mount station where he picked up a tussle with Sathya Priya. 

Sathish had eventually pushed her in front of the suburban train and killed her. He fled the spot and the visuals from the station displayed a sense of shock and tensions aftermath the murder under broad daylight. The grim incident reminisced a similar murder that happened last year near Tambaram railway station in the city where a 25-year-old man stabbed 20-year-old girl student to death. The killer was surrounded by the passersby and he was later handed over to the police.