It was a bloody Friday for women in the city, as news emerged of the cold blooded murder of five women — four of them under 30 years of age.
While S. Swathi, a 24-year-old Infosys employee, was hacked to death as she sat waiting for a train at the Nungambakkam railway station, the decaying corpses of a mother and her three teenaged daughters were discovered in a house in Royapettah, right behind the new police station building.
Angry residents took to social media to vent their ire at the establishment, at the visible lack of policing and the brazen nature of the violent crimes against women. Reacting to the murders, Sudha Ramalingam, a senior advocate said, “Whether at home or outside, women are vulnerable, even helpless. It is high time we began learning martial arts for self defence.”
