Planned Crime, Lack of Remorse Got Sathya Killer Death

Though D Sathish (now 33) murdered M Sathya (20) by pushing her in front of an EMU train at St Thomas Mount station in Chennai on October 13, 2022, he had planned it in advance and even tried to execute it on each of the three days prior to the incident, failing as either she did not come to the station or there was too much of a crowd.

- SIDDHARTH PRABHAKAR

On the fateful day, moments before he eventually pushed her with full force onto the tracks, Sathish told her to "get lost (tholaindhu podi)", peeked to ensure that she suffered an instantaneous death and ran away from the spot. This "monstrous mindset of eliminating a hapless victim with all vengeance," apart from a lack of remorse and repentance in jail are the reasons, stated by the Chennai Mahila court judge J Sridevi to hand out a rarest of rare capital punishment to Sathish, in her December 30 judgment.