Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday held an emergency meeting with the Chennai Director General of Police after a 24-year-old employee of Infosys was hacked to death by an alleged stalker at the Nungambakkam railway station on June 24, ANI reported. The chief minister discussed the law and order situation in the city with police. On Monday, the Madras High Court had pulled up local police for being slack and asked the security agency to arrest S Swathi's killer in the next two days.

"Where were your police officers? Swathi's body was lying like an exhibition for two hours. Even the dead have got right to dignity under the Constitution," the High Court bench had said. The victim's father rued that the others present at the scene did not help his daughter who was bleeding on the platform for hours before police arrived, reported NDTV. She was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

"Mute spectators have deprived us of the chance to see our daughter. If anybody had reacted, or countered [the attack], it could have been averted. I don't know...because of aversion or some kind of selfishness...they didn't. We should not be like that," he told the news channel. He said that he has faith that the police will catch the culprit.