15 days after Subasri death, ex-AIADMK councillor Jayagopal arrested

The Chennai-based techie died after an illegal banner, put up by the politician, fell on her.

A fortnight after the death of R. Subasri, a young Chennai-based techie, caused by an illegal banner, former AIADMK councillor S. Jayagopal was arrested on Friday. He is accused of putting up the banner announcing his son’s wedding.

Confirming Jayagopal’s arrest from a hotel in Denkanikottai, Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu, a senior police officer of the traffic wing said the accused would be produced before a magistrate in Chennai. A special team was formed after his name was included in the FIR. The team tracked him to Denkanikottai, located near Hosur, the officer added.

Subasri was proceeding on a two-wheeler to her house in Nemillichery near Chromepet on September 12 when a banner put up by Jayagopal announcing his son’s wedding fell on her. She fell off the vehicle and was run over by a water tanker on the Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam Radial Road in Pallikaranai.

While the St. Thomas Traffic Investigation Wing, which probed the accident, arrested tanker driver Manoj, a case was filed against Jayagopal after it was found that the accident was the result of an “unauthorised banner” installed on the median by him.

Public pressure

Jayagopal went absconding from his house. Even as he remained untraceable for a fortnight, public pressure began to mount on the city police for his arrest.

Cases were filed against Jayagopal and his relative Meganathan by the St. Thomas Traffic Investigation Wing under Section 304 (II) of the IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder ) and by the Pallikaranai police for putting up illegal banners under the Tamil Nadu Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act, 1959, based on a complaint filed by an official of the Greater Chennai Corporation.

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