In a shocking piece of news, 25-year-old Udhayakumar, who was rescued by woman Police Inspector Rajeswari of Chennai on Thursday, has passed away on Friday in a Kilpauk hospital, where he was admitted after being rescued from a cemetery in Kilpauk. The news of his demise had drawn major attention from across and beyond the city with several people expressing their anguish that Rajeswari's rescue mission had eventually gone vain. 

Udhayakumar was working in the Kilpauk cemetery and lived with his mother nearby. He got stranded at the cemetery amid heavy rains and went unnoticed and unconscious for over a day. In the morning hours of Thursday,  the TP Chatram police station has received phone calls about the body of a young man that was inside the inundated cemetery in Kilpauk. A police team under Inspector Rajeswari had reached the cemetery following the calls at around 8.30 am and when she went near to the body, she noticed that the man, identified as 25-year-old Udhayakumar, was alive and battling for survival. 

He was submerged in the rainwater and struggling for breathing. Amid heavy rainfall, Rajeswari neither waited for an ambulance nor left the place by ordering her subordinates to take care of him. She bravely lifted Udhayakumar and carried him over her shoulders. With a young man on her back, Rajeswari was seen going to the police jeep and other officials had handed over a dry towel for Udhayakumar. The woman inspector was then seen running on the road, by carrying Udhayakumar, to catch an auto-rickshaw. 

After finding an auto, Rajeswari put Udhayakumar into it and asks the driver to take him to the hospital. Udhayakumar was made to lie down in the passenger seat and the police officers had accompanied him to Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital. The reports say that Udhayakumar has been getting treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A police official said that it was unsure how long Udhayakumar had been there in the cemetery and the TP Chatram police station had received the calls saying that the man was dead and lying next to the graves. Following the call, the police team went to the spot and found that he was alive.

Instead of waiting for an ambulance, Rajeswari decided to shift him to the hospital immediately and carried him on her shoulders. As the video has been going rounds on social media, several Chennaiites celebrate Rajeswari as the Singapenn of the city and commended her for her commitment to saving lives. Rajeswari's courageous rescue has been going viral on social media and has swiftly begun the talk of the town. Hundreds of thousands of people had commended Rajeswari for rescuing Udhayakumar and she was also appreciated by Chennai Police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal. 

On Friday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin had felicitated Rajeswari at his residence in Chennai during which he lauded her for rescuing Udhayakumar, who was in an unconscious state. The Chief Minister took to social media and released pictures of the meeting and in his statement, Stalin said, "As every employee in the government has been dedicatedly discharging their duties by having in their mind that this government is the one which saves the interests of people, I express my heartfelt wishes to you (Rajeswari) for the unparalleled job of saving a life amid monsoon rains, which has become a throne of what employees have in their mind."

While Rajeswari was flooded with wishes, the city was shocked to learn that Udhayakumar has on Thursday passed away. According to reports, Udhayakumar, who was battling for survival, didn't respond to the treatment and amid the treatments, he had breathed his last at the Kilpauk medical college hospital. The news of his demise broke out hours after Rajeswari had met with the Chief Minister.